56/60 There are a good many of us who don't get on. He didn't get on, I suppose.' The other, his head bowed a little, had the air of listening with acute attention. Yes. I remember Captain Anthony saying so in the shipping office." "Possibly about to die," went on the old man, in his careful deliberate tone. "And perhaps glad enough to die." Mr.Powell was young enough to be startled at the suggestion, which sounded confidential and blood-curdling in the dusk. |