That's so, you were one of the survivors." "The survivors!" echoed Vandover with wondering curiosity.

"Tell me--you know I haven't heard a word yet--were there many lives lost ?" He marvelled at the strangeness of the situation, that this bar waiter should know more of the wreck than he himself who had been upon it.
"You bet there were!" answered Toby.

"Twenty-three altogether; one boat capsized; Kelly, 'Bug' Kelly, son of that fellow that runs the Crystal Grotto, _he_ was drowned, and one of Hocheimer's--Hocheimer, the jeweller, you know--one of his travelling salesmen was drowned; a little Jew named Brann, a diamond expert; he jumped overboard and--" "Don't!" said Vandover with a sharp gesture.

"I saw him drown--it was sickening." "Were you in that boat ?" exclaimed Toby.

"Well, wait till I tell you; the authorities here are right after that first engineer with a sharp stick, and some of the passengers, too, for not taking him in.