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 else to go, and might just as well be on the Nautilus as anywhere else.

"Grr," he muttered suddenly about midnight, peering almost straight ahead. "Him light over there."

The others looked but could see nothing.

"Sure?" asked Tempest.

"Him light not there now. Him gone," said the Kanaka.

"That's strange," said Dave. "What do you make of it, Tempest? It could n't have been the Firefly, could it?" "Can't say. These Kanakas have wonderful sight, but the Firefly must be a mighty long way off."

"But they won't be carrying regulation lights, any more than we are."

"That's true, but I expect they have some sort of a lamp on board like ours, to keep an eye on the compass, and one of them may have been holding