"I would faint.

Whilst you are away I will pray for them--my unfortunate friends." As he passed from her side he heard her sobbing quietly.
When he reached the lagoon he halted suddenly.

Something startled him.
He was quite certain that he had counted fourteen corpses.

Now there were only twelve.

The two Lascars' bodies, which rested on the small group of rocks on the verge of the lagoon, had vanished.
Where had they gone to?
.