PART III—JETSAM
CHAPTER XXIV—The Boat
Carpentaria and Pauline continued to stand motionless outside the house, both of them hesitant, recoiling before the circumstances which faced them. The night remained clear, almost brilliant.
“The entire situation is changed,” said Carpentaria at length. “A new factor has entered into it.”
“What factor?” Pauline demanded.
“Why, your sister, of course!” he replied, with a slight smile that disclosed momentarily the quizzical male person in him. “Consider how it complicates the affair. If I had to deal only with the mysterious individual with grey hair and a blue suit—perhaps you do not know that he calls himself Jetsam?—I could go to work in a simple masculine fashion, and in the end one of us would suffer, probably he. But with a woman in the case——”