Yet the very fact that I lived yielded me fresh confidence, a fatalistic belief that my life had thus been spared for a specific purpose.

It might yet be my privilege to foil these villains, and rescue Mrs.Henley.

It was my belief she was also on board this vessel.

I had no reason to assume this, except the wording of Broussard's report which I had overheard.

But she was a prisoner, and this vessel would be the most likely place for her to be confined.