I don't know enough; I don't know what's uppermost; it's just such a lot of miscellaneous eventualities as I don't care to go stirring up; and I ask you to let me deal with the old girl after a patent of my own." "Certainly--what you please," said I, scarce with attention, for a new thought now occupied my brain.

"Captain," I broke out, "you are wrong: we cannot hush this up.

There is one thing you have forgotten." "What is that ?" he asked.
"A bogus Captain Trent, a bogus Goddedaal, a whole bogus crew, have all started home," said I."If we are right, not one of them will reach his journey's end.

And do you mean to say that such a circumstance as that can pass without remark ?" "Sailors," said the captain, "only sailors! If they were all bound for one place, in a body, I don't say so; but they're all going separate--to Hull, to Sweden, to the Clyde, to the Thames.

Well, at each place, what is it?
Nothing new.