Want to see him, sir ?" The very frankness of the invitation made the captain suspicious, and the thought flashed through his mind that perhaps Killeny Boy was already hidden ashore somewhere by the dog-stealing steward.
"Yes, indeed I'd like to say how-do-you-do to him," Captain Duncan answered.
And his was genuine surprise, on entering the steward's room, to behold Michael just rousing from his curled-up sleep on the floor.

But when he left, his surprise would have been shocking could he have seen through the closed door what immediately began to take place.

Out through the open port-hole, in a steady stream, Daughtry was passing the contents of the room.

Everything went that belonged to him, including the turtle- shell and the photographs and calendars on the wall.

Michael, with the command of silence laid upon him, went last.