CHAPTER X.
Michael left the _Makambo_ as he had come on board, through a port-hole.
Likewise, the affair occurred at night, and it was Kwaque's hands that received him.

It had been quick work, and daring, in the dark of early evening.

From the boat-deck, with a bowline under Kwaque's arms and a turn of the rope around a pin, Dag Daughtry had lowered his leprous servitor into the waiting launch.
On his way below, he encountered Captain Duncan, who saw fit to warn him: "No shannigan with Killeny Boy, Steward.

He must go back to Tulagi with us." "Yes, sir," the steward agreed.

"An' I'm keepin' him tight in my room to make safe.