Coke's orders forbade the display of any lights whatsoever, except those in the engine-room and the three essential lamps carried externally.

So the _Unser Fritz_ was gloomy, and the plash of the sea against her worn plates had an ominous sound, while the glittering white eye of the lighthouse winked evilly across the black plain in front.
In a word Iris was thoroughly wretched, and not a little disturbed by the near prospect of landing in a foreign country, which would probably be plunged into civil war by the mere advent of De Sylva.

It need hardly be said that, under these circumstances, Hozier was the one man in whose company she would feel reasonably safe.

But she could not see him anywhere.

Coke and Watts, with the Brazilians and a couple of Germans, were on the bridge, but Hozier was not to be found.
At last she hailed one of the _Andromeda's_ men whom she met in a gangway.
"Mr.Hozier, miss ?" said he.