“Could you see what he was doing?”

“No; but he was fumbling at the box. I heard him.”

“Where did he go after that?”

“He went aft.”

“You could not see him?”

“I didn’t look. I thought I saw something white moving below me, and I was watching it.”

“This white thing—what did it look like?”

“Like a dog, I should say. It moved about, and then disappeared.”

“How?”

“I don’t understand.”