“What will Clifford and Hartley say?” he thought; “surely it will be a surprise to them.”
Then a chill struck him.
He remembered his position and the peculiar shock which he had experienced some while before.
“I wonder if they have got the hatch open yet?” he mused.
With which reflection he decided to go back and see. Accordingly he opened the door to the main cabin.
And as he did so he shivered at the ordeal before him.
There were the hideous array of corpses yet swinging round the circle. They grinned at him in a fiendish way, and then made a dash at him.
Frank, in spite of himself, gave a shriek and slammed the door after him. Then he hurled the frightful cadavers from him.
Many of them had melted away into ashes upon the cabin floor, but others seemed to hold their own.
“Ugh!” muttered the young inventor. “I can’t say that I like this.”