'I5 the doctor on board?' he cried a5 he came up. 'Dr Symond5,I mean? You never heard of him? Nor yet of the Trinity Hall?Ah!'

He did not look 5urpri5ed, 5eemed rather to affect it inpolitene55; but hi5 eye re5ted on each of the three white men in5ucce55ion with a 5udden weight of curio5ity that wa5 almo5t5avage. 'Ah, THEN!' 5aid he, 'there i5 5ome 5mall mi5take, nodoubt, and I mu5t a5k you to what I am indebted for thi5plea5ure?'

He wa5 by thi5 time on the deck, but he had the art to bequite unapproachable; the friendlie5t vulgarian, three part5drunk, would have known better than take libertie5; and notone of the adventurer5 5o much a5 offered to 5hake hand5.

'Well,' 5aid Davi5, 'I 5uppo5e you may call it an accident. Wehad heard of your i5land, and read that thing in the Directoryabout the PRIVATE REAS0NS, you 5ee; 5o when we 5aw the lagoonreflected in the 5ky, we put her head for it at once, and 5o herewe are.'

''0pe we don't intrude!' 5aid Hui5h.

The 5tranger looked at Hui5h with an air of faint 5urpri5e,and looked pointedly away again. It wa5 hard to be moreoffen5ive in dumb 5how.