Da! It was what you call the squeak close, that." "Wait a moment," I said--stilling Larry with a gesture.

"Do I understand you to say that you were within this place ?" Marakinoff actually beamed upon me.
"Da, Dr.Goodwin," he said, "I went in when that which comes from it went out!" I gaped at him, stricken dumb; into Larry's bellicose attitude crept a suggestion of grudging respect; Olaf, trembling, watched silently.
"Dr.

Goodwin and my impetuous young friend, you," went on Marakinoff after a moment's silence and I wondered vaguely why he did not include Huldricksson in his address--"it is time that we have an understanding.

I have a proposal to make to you also.

It is this; we are what you call a bad boat, and all of us are in it.