"Yes. I saw you considered that confirmed this morning, even before the captain could have received his 'wireless,' Mr. Dunneston, when you missed your sleeve buttons and, of course, you considered I had concealed my own things for a blind. But tell me, Mr. Dunneston, have you heard what happened to Miss Varris last night? How, sir, will you consider that?"
"What, Mr. Preston?" the Englishman demanded eagerly. "I say, what happened to you last night, Miss Varris?"
The girl gave him the matter rapidly.
"Chloroformed as well as robbed, you think? I say, shocking this! I beg your pardon again and, I hope, for the last time, Mr. Preston," the Englishman extended his hand to the young American when he had heard. "For, I say, robbing her after what I myself had seen would be impossible enough, Mr. Preston; but the chloroforming, too, makes it entirely prohibitive, I say, what? So a pardon again, sir! But in another way,
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