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"
Do
you
know
how
it
was
that
Captain
Whalley
remained
on
board
?
Did
he
really
refuse
to
leave
?
Come
now
!
Or
was
it
perhaps
an
accidental
...
?
"
"
Nothing
!
"
Sterne
interrupted
with
energy
.
"
I
tell
you
I
yelled
for
him
to
leap
overboard
.
He
simply
must
have
cast
off
the
painter
of
the
boat
himself
.
We
all
yelled
to
him
--
that
is
,
Jack
and
I
.
He
would
n't
even
answer
us
.
The
ship
was
as
silent
as
a
grave
to
the
last
.
Then
the
boilers
fetched
away
,
and
down
she
went
.
Accident
!
Not
it
!
The
game
was
up
,
sir
,
I
tell
you
.
"
This
was
all
that
Sterne
had
to
say
.
Mr.
Van
Wyk
had
been
of
course
made
the
guest
of
the
club
for
a
fortnight
,
and
it
was
there
that
he
met
the
lawyer
in
whose
office
had
been
signed
the
agreement
between
Massy
and
Captain
Whalley
.
"
Extraordinary
old
man
,
"
he
said
.
"
He
came
into
my
office
from
nowhere
in
particular
as
you
may
say
,
with
his
five
hundred
pounds
to
place
,
and
that
engineer
fellow
following
him
anxiously
.
And
now
he
is
gone
out
a
little
inexplicably
,
just
as
he
came
.
I
could
never
understand
him
quite
.
There
was
no
mystery
at
all
about
that
Massy
,
eh
?
I
wonder
whether
Whalley
refused
to
leave
the
ship
.
It
would
have
been
foolish
.
He
was
blameless
,
as
the
court
found
.
"
Mr.
Van
Wyk
had
known
him
well
,
he
said
,
and
he
could
not
believe
in
suicide
.
Such
an
act
would
not
have
been
in
character
with
what
he
knew
of
the
man
.
"
It
is
my
opinion
,
too
,
"
the
lawyer
agreed
.
The
general
theory
was
that
the
captain
had
remained
too
long
on
board
trying
to
save
something
of
importance
.
Perhaps
the
chart
which
would
clear
him
,
or
else
something
of
value
in
his
cabin
.
The
painter
of
the
boat
had
come
adrift
of
itself
it
was
supposed
.
However
,
strange
to
say
,
some
little
time
before
that
voyage
poor
Whalley
had
called
in
his
office
and
had
left
with
him
a
sealed
envelope
addressed
to
his
daughter
,
to
be
forwarded
to
her
in
case
of
his
death
.
Still
it
was
nothing
very
unusual
,
especially
in
a
man
of
his
age
.
Mr.
Van
Wyk
shook
his
head
.
Captain
Whalley
looked
good
for
a
hundred
years
.
"
Perfectly
true
,
"
assented
the
lawyer
.
"
The
old
fellow
looked
as
though
he
had
come
into
the
world
full-grown
and
with
that
long
beard
.
I
could
never
,
somehow
,
imagine
him
either
younger
or
older
--
do
n't
you
know
.
There
was
a
sense
of
physical
power
about
that
man
too
.
And
perhaps
that
was
the
secret
of
that
something
peculiar
in
his
person
which
struck
everybody
who
came
in
contact
with
him
.
He
looked
indestructible
by
any
ordinary
means
that
put
an
end
to
the
rest
of
us
.
His
deliberate
,
stately
courtesy
of
manner
was
full
of
significance
.
It
was
as
though
he
were
certain
of
having
plenty
of
time
for
everything
.
Yes
,
there
was
something
indestructible
about
him
;
and
the
way
he
talked
sometimes
you
might
have
thought
he
believed
it
himself
.
When
he
called
on
me
last
with
that
letter
he
wanted
me
to
take
charge
of
,
he
was
not
depressed
at
all
.
Perhaps
a
shade
more
deliberate
in
his
talk
and
manner
.
Not
depressed
in
the
least
.
Had
he
a
presentiment
,
I
wonder
?
Perhaps
!
Still
it
seems
a
miserable
end
for
such
a
striking
figure
.
"
