Branch ought to have returned from looking for him, and Branch is still out.

Wilbur is gone.

Out of seven we're only four left.
Who's next ?" He stared gloomily from face to face, and Gandil snarled: "A fellow who saves a shipwrecked man--" "Damn you, keep still, Gandil." "Don't damn me, Pierre le Rouge, but damn the luck you've brought to Jim Boone." "Jim, do you chalk all this up against me ?" "I, lad?
No, no! But it's queer.

Patterson's done for; there's no doubt of that.

Good-natured Garry Patterson.