We looked with our night-glasses, which are more than usually powerful.

You know, we need good glasses for the east shore of the Adriatic and for among the islands to the south.

There was a full moon and a brilliant light.

Of course we were a little way off, for though the Spear of Ivan is in deep water, one has to be careful of currents, for it is in just such places that the dangerous currents run." The agent of Lloyd's told me only a few weeks ago that it was only after a prolonged investigation of the tidal and sea currents that the house decided to except from ordinary sea risks losses due to a too close course by the Spear of Ivan.

When I tried to get a little more definite account of the coffin-boat and the dead lady that is given in _The Journal of Occultism_ he simply shrugged his shoulders.