I do not trust them any more than I trusted Captain Coke.

Don't you realize that he brought the _Andromeda_ to this place in order to wreck her more easily?
It was to supply a pretext for the visit that he made undrinkable the water in the ship's tanks." That appealing hand still rested on Philip's shoulder.

Its touch affected him profoundly.

With a lightning dart of memory his thoughts went back to the moment when she lay, inert and half-fainting, in his arms on the bridge, after he had taken her from the lazarette.

But he controlled his voice sufficiently to say: "You may be right; indeed, I know you are right, so far as Coke is concerned.