CHAPTER V.ACCUSING FACES.
While we were hove-to, the 'Porcupine' passed us.

In all probability it would now get to Aden ahead of us; and herein lay a development of the history of Mrs.Falchion.I was standing beside Belle Treherne as the ship came within hail of us and signalled to see what was the matter.
Mrs.Falchion was not far from us.

She was looking intently at the vessel through marine-glasses, and she did not put them down until it had passed.

Then she turned away with an abstracted light in her eyes and a wintry smile; and the look and the smile continued when she sat down in her deck-chair and leaned her cheek meditatively on the marine-glass.

But I saw now that something was added to the expression of her face--a suggestion of brooding or wonder.