A BLOW IN THE DARKNESS It would be hard to describe Dan Baxter's feelings after Captain Blossom and the Rover boys left him alone in his stateroom.

At one instant he was fairly shaking with rage, and at the next quaking with fear over what the future might hold in store for him.
"They have got the best of me again!" he muttered, clenching his fists.

"And after I felt sure I had escaped them.

It must have been Fate that made Captain Blossom pick them up.

Now I've either got to work as a common sailor or submit to being locked up in some dark, foul-smelling hole on the ship.