"I must refer you to Dr. Phillimore, sir," said Day curtly. "As for me, if I had known what I know now, you would have sailed under another captain. I am too old for mysteries."
Ignoring this, if he listened to it, the Prince turned on me.
"Where is your evidence of this?" he asked, and his eyes fell on Ellison, who was plainly uncomfortable.
"Ah! did what the doctor says happen?"
"Yes, sir."
"Then we must send for this man Adams," concluded his Royal Highness. "Let him be brought."
I had in my hand during all this time the bar of iron which McCrae had brought. I gave it to Barraclough.
"If you are going," said I, "take this. It may be needed."
He looked at me with a lift of his eyebrows.
"All serene," said he with a smile. "This seems a pretty show altogether. Come, quartermaster."