"Do come and have a look.
You can see the _Scorpion_ quite distinctly.

All the officers seem to be gathered around that mysterious structure on the upper deck.

I thought at first it was a stand for a gun but it isn't." Olive held out her hand for the telescope but Geraldine shook her head.
There was a troubled expression in her eyes.
"I suppose it's awfully silly, Captain Granet," she said, "but honestly, I don't think Ralph would take it as a joke at all if he knew that we were up here, trying to find out what was going on." Olive set down the telescope promptly.
"I didn't think of that," she murmured.
Granet laughed easily.
"Perhaps you are right," he admitted.

"All the same, we are a little exceptionally placed, aren't we ?--his sister, his fiancee, and--" He broke off suddenly.

A hand had been laid upon his shoulder.