“I’ve heard of such things happening before,” remarked Fred.
“What do you mean?” said John.
“Why, people being in sort of a blank state when they do things that they don’t remember at all later.”
“What made Sam that way?” said John.
“I told you,” exclaimed Grant. “He was so frightened it probably drove him temporarily out of his head. Unconsciously he blamed it all on poor Petersen so that when he saw him right here in the same boat, his one idea was to get revenge.”
“Can we blame him then?” said Fred. “If a man doesn’t know what he is doing, is he responsible?”
“I’d hate to decide that,” said Grant. “At the same time I don’t see how we can hold it against him, especially when he doesn’t know what it was.”
“When we get back to civilization we may have to tell on him though,” remarked John. “Don’t you think we’ll have to do that?”
“Wait till we get there,” advised Grant. “From the look of things right now, it doesn’t seem that we are going to get there very soon.”
“It’s funny we don’t see any boats,” said George.