He looked round at me too, and they went up together so quickly then that when I got on the quarter-deck I was only in time to see the inner door of the passage close after them.

Queer--eh?
But if it were only queerness one wouldn't mind.

Some luggage in new trunks came on board in the afternoon.

We undocked at midnight.

And may I be hanged if I know who or what he was or is.