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 “Certainly I ’ll go with you,” she answered quite cordially, getting up and throwing the magazine into the seat of her deck-chair. “Where shall we go? The forecastle or the rear castle?—By the way, you have n’t told me what your criminal has done.”

“This way—!” bowed the Captain. “No, Mrs. Trevelyan, I want to give you a little surprise—if we identify the man. And you will be surprised! If we don’t find him on board I ’ll tell you all about it, afterwards.”

Feeling that it would be unwise for Cosmo’s sake to show too great an interest in either the identity of the criminal or the details of his crime, Lily walked along the deck with the Captain towards the reading-saloon.

“Extraordinary, isn’t it!” continued Ponsonby confidentially, “how we are able to keep in constant touch with England? I receive all the news, as you know, every morning. Now this man had no sooner committed his offense than I knew all about it and the directors at once wired me personally to look over the ship and see if I could n’t pick out the fellow among the passengers. I won’t tell you who he is—but I ’ll give you his description