"Everybody knows Meyer hasn't a brother, and if he hadn't made THAT break he might have got away with the other one.

But now this Smedburg is going to wireless ahead to Mr.Meyer and to the police." "Has he no other way of spending his money ?" I asked.
"He's a confounded nuisance!" growled the purser.

"He wants to show us he knows Adolph Meyer; wants to put Meyer under an obligation.

It means a scene on the wharf, and newspaper talk; and," he added with disgust, "these smoking-room rows never helped any line." I went in search of Talbot; partly because I knew he was on the verge of a collapse, partly, as I frankly admitted to myself, because I was sorry the young man had come to grief.

I searched the snow-swept decks, and then, after threading my way through faintly lit tunnels, I knocked at his cabin.