I could not have imagined that such imperturbable calm and at the same time such a consciousness of latent strength could have been expressed by any human face.
He was dressed in a brown velveteen coat, loose, dark trousers, with a shirt that was cut low in the collar, so as to show the muscular, brown neck, and he still wore the red fez which I had noticed the night before.
I observed with a feeling of surprise, as we approached him, that none of these garments showed the slightest indication of the rough treatment and wetting which they must have received during their wearer's submersion and struggle to the shore.
"So you are none the worse for your ducking," he said in a pleasant, musical voice, looking from the captain to the mate.

"I hope that your poor sailors have found pleasant quarters." "We are all safe," the captain answered.

"But we had given you up for lost--you and your two friends.

Indeed, I was just making arrangements for your burial with Mr.West here." The stranger looked at me and smiled.
"We won't give Mr.West that trouble for a little time yet," he remarked; "my friends and I came ashore all safe, and we have found shelter in a hut a mile or so along the coast.

It is lonely down there, but we have everything which we can desire." "We start for Glasgow this afternoon," said the captain; "I shall be very glad if you will come with us.