15/41 She heard someone come running down the companion, and a moment later, to her astonishment, Frank Mallett himself came in. He looked pale and excited. "The skipper tells me that a letter came here saying that I had been hurt and taken to Dr.Maddison's, and that Bertha and her maid went off at once, and have not returned, though it is more than two hours since they went. I wrote no letter to Bertha, but was at dinner at the club when the skipper came for me. |