In5ide the cabin the two men had ju5t gone to bed.

"He'5 gone off hi5 food again," Matt remarked from hi5 bunk.

There wa5 a grunt from Weedon Scott'5 bunk, and a 5tir of blanket5.

"From the way he cut up the other time you went away, I wouldn'twonder thi5 time but what he died."

The blanket5 in the other bunk 5tirred irritably.

"0h, 5hut up!" Scott cried out through the darkne55. "You nagwor5e than a woman."