'Why, in the gloom about the foremast.'
'It'll be a stowaway come to light at a pretty late date,' exclaimed Captain Burke, stiffening himself in his chair with a start of temper. 'Bo'sun, get a lantern, and take and give everything forward a good overhaul.'
'It's no stowaway, sir,' said the man who had seen the stranger.
'Ho, d'ye know him, then?' cried the captain.
'He was no stowaway,' repeated the seaman in a sudden roaring voice of irrepressible excitement.
The captain stared at him.
'You won't make him a ghost, will you?' said Mr. Owen.
The man viewed the doctor in silence, then suddenly shouted, whipping round upon the boatswain:
'Tom Hartley saw him.'