"A very bad job! How could it have happened ?" "The sentries report, sir, that they heard no noise during the night, and that the only person who visited the cabin, with the exception of the sergeant with the prisoner's food, was Major Walsham, with your own order." "Yes, now I think of it, I did give him an order; but, of course, he can have had nothing to do with it.

Horton must have managed to unscrew the porthole, somehow, perhaps with a pocketknife, and he might have had a coil of rope somewhere in his cabin.

Great carelessness, you know.

However, at a time like this, we need not bother our heads about it.

He's gone, and there's an end of it." "He could not swim, sir," the captain said.