"The steam yacht! Do you mean the one that caught fire?"
"Of course."
"Then Link Merwell was on board that vessel?" cried Dave, in added wonder.
"Yes."
"Was he a member of your company?"
"He was. Mr. Appleby, our manager, took him on the day before we went on the trip. I don't know where Mr. Appleby met him."
"That certainly beats the Dutch! Of course, Merwell must have seen me and my friends in the rowboat."
"He said he did."
"He took good pains to keep out of sight!"
"I don't know anything about that, Porter. But he was on the boat, you can take my word for that."