“Indeed I do!” returned Dave. “Why, I sailed with him in the South Seas!”
“Well, he’s here.”
“We’ll have to try to see him before we leave,” said Phil. “He was a nice fellow.”
At the second shipping office further inquiries were made concerning the sailing of the Emma Brower. It was learned that the bark had carried not more than half a cargo for Barbados and eight passengers. The names of Merwell, Jasniff, Leeds, or Cross did not appear on the passenger list.
“Did anybody here see those passengers?” asked Dunston Porter.
“I did,” returned a young clerk. “I was aboard just before she sailed, and I saw all of them.”
“Were there two young fellows, chums?” asked Dave.
“There were, two tall chaps, a bit older than you.”
“Did they look like these fellows?” and now our hero brought out the photographs he had used before.
“They certainly did!” cried the clerk. “I remember this fellow distinctly,” and he pointed to Jasniff’s picture, taken just before that individual had run away from Oak Hall.