"You're welcome to him," said Dick. "I wouldn't take him for a roommate on a bet."
Matt turned from the washbowl, where he had been removing some of the grime from his hands, and reached for a towel.
"No accident about that," said he. "I'll bet Sixty fixed it up with the purser."
"Why?" demanded Dick.
"I don't know why, but I've got a hunch that that's the way of it." Matt finished with the towel, threw it back on the rack and sat down in a chair. "There are a few things connected with this situation that won't hold water. Listen, pards, and see if you don't agree with me."
[CHAPTER V.]
SIXTY SHOWS HIS HAND.
"We'll suppose," proceeded Matt, "that Townsend has brought us all together on the Santa Maria for some work or other that's to be done in Belize. We'll suppose further that everything is all right and as it should be, and that Townsend had a niece whom he never mentioned to us, and a brother-in-law about whom he never said a word in all the time we have been with him. But why should the niece and the brother-in-law try to deceive us?"
"Der leedle girl vouldn't do dot, Matt," asserted Carl.