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Marlow ear

from a box which stood on a little table by ht

of the roo expression hich

he habitually covers up his sympathetic impulses of mirth and pity before

the unreasonable complications the idealisnant problear with affected care, then turned uponat him silently

"I suppose," he said, thea pellucid quality

to his tone, "that you think it's high ti about that psychological cabin mystery of

discoical) which

affected so profoundly Mr Franklin the chief mate, and had even

disturbed the serene innocence of Mr Powell, the second of the ship

Ferndale, commanded by Roderick Anthony--the son of the poet, you

know"

"You are going to confess now that you have failed to find it out," I

said in pretended indignation

"It would serve you right if I told you that I have But I won't I

haven't failed I own though that for a time, I was puzzled However, I