CHAPTER XIV.
After dinner Rayel and I went at once to our stateroom.
"I am out of patience with myself," said he, as soon as we were seated.
"My mind is failing me just when I need it most.

I have grown dull and stupid.

For more than a week I have been trying to find out that man's secret.

I knew that he had a secret, and that it concerned us.

Not until to-night was I certain that I had found it out.