"Down on the lower deck as he——"
"Which is the lower deck?"
"The deck you came aboard on."
"They told me that was the freight deck!"
"It is."
"Then, why—?" She ceased, pondered, and spoke again: "Is there any deck lower than the lower deck?"
"None."
She mused once more: "Why—that's strange."
"Yes," he said, "strange, but true."
"Then how could the captain fall——" Again she ceased and yet again pondered: "Are the boilers—on the boiler deck?"