"If what Wilks told you is true, Nathan Smith knows," said the other.

"I'll ask him." "You don't expect to get the truth out of him, do you ?" inquired Hardy, superciliously.
"I do," said his partner, serenely; "and when I've got it I shall go and tell them at Equator Lodge.

It will be doing those two poor ladies a service to let them know what has really happened to the captain." "I'll walk round to Nathan Smith's with you," said Hardy.

"I should like to hear what the fellow has to say." "No, I'll go alone," said his partner; "Smith's a very shy man--painfully shy.

I've run across him once or twice before.