It seemed as if Young Jack Harkaway’s troubles were surely ended, but they were not.
Without being aware of it, Jack had another and startling experience to pass through, and the time for it to begin had now come.
The Catamaran was slowly making her way up the Red Sea, when a very unusual thing occurred.
The Catamaran ran into a fog.
Fogs are seldom encountered on the Red Sea.
Jack and Harry were sitting on deck talking, Clara was asleep in the cabin, and Mole and Monday were asleep on deck.
It was unpleasantly hot—quite suffocating in fact, and yet Jack and Harry managed to fall asleep too.
The truth was they had slept but little the night before and were pretty well tired out.
All at once one of the Arabs shook Jack by the shoulder.
He started up amazed to find that he had slept, and still more amazed to find that the Catamaran was enveloped in a thick fog.