"No, not of anything valuable. Why do you ask?"
"Because you sang out to one of them, an Italian, I should judge—"
"Ah, you heard that? You are, indeed, quick in an emergency. Can we go on, yes?"
"Certainly. I will just lift our dazed friend into the victoria, and tell the cocher to give him a glass of cognac at the first café he comes to."
This was done. Five minutes later, the first and second officers of the Aphrodite assisted their employer up the yacht's gangway. Leaving Tagg to explain to Stump what had happened, Royson took von Kerber to his cabin, and helped to remove his outer clothing. A superficial wound on the neck, and a somewhat deeper cut on the right forearm, were the only injuries; the contents of a medicine chest, applied under von Kerber's directions, soon staunched the flow of blood.
"I do not wish anything to be said about this affair," began the Baron, when Royson would have left him.
"Tagg must have given the captain full details already," said Dick.
"But did he hear that name, Alfieri?"
"I think not."
"And he would not understand, about the—er—document?"