It occurred to none to doubt me, or to question me minutely.

Why should it have?
His strangeness had been noted, commented upon; all who had met him had thought him half mad.

I did little to discourage the impression.

And so it came naturally that on the log it was entered that he had fallen or leaped from the vessel some time during the night.
A report to this effect was made when we entered Melbourne.

I slipped quietly ashore and in the press of the war news Throckmartin's supposed fate won only a few lines in the newspapers; my own presence on the ship and in the city passed unnoticed.
I was fortunate in securing at Melbourne everything I needed except a set of Becquerel ray condensers--but these were the very keystone of my equipment.