I can shout at him from here.

He can't possibly have any business of a confidential kind.

He merely wants to be soothed down about some trifle, and that can be done just as well from a distance." A quarter of an hour later Major Kent hailed Meldon again; this time he had Doyle with him on the shore.

Meldon sat up on his life-buoy, and leaned both elbows on the boom.
"That's right, Major," he shouted.

"You've brought him down.