s son!" stormed Rodd. "How can I? They went off this
afternoon on some game or another, and haven't been in sight since."

"Hah!" said the doctor, fanning himself with one hand, wiping his face
with the other, and then shaking his bandanna silk handkerchief up and
down to try and get cool. "There, I am not going to be in a passion,
Rodney. I am not going to say angry words to you, Chubb, for you
believe all this, while I--I--I can't believe it. The Count is too
grand a gentleman to have made a--a--what you said, of me. But I will
have this matter cleared up, and you will have to apologise to me and
the Count."

"And to Viscount Morny des Saix," cried Rodd.

"Yes, my boy; exactly," said the doctor; and then to the skipper--"If
you are wrong!"

Saying this, he literally stamped out of the cabin.

"Where are you going, uncle?" cried Rodd, following.

"Up on deck, my boy," cried the doctor, without turning his head. "I
feel like a furnace, and if I speak any more words they'll be like the
skipper said--red-hot."

"Well," said the captain, as he stood staring towards the cabin stairs,
"I never see'd the doctor with his monkey up like that afore. Anyhow,
he aren't afraid to trust me with his bag of tricks down here, and
bottles of mixture. But he needn't have spoiled my chart!"

CHAPTER FIFTY ONE.

THAT'S SAINT HELENA.

Night, and no sign of the brig. Morning, and the doctor and his nephew
both on deck, with a sail in sight upon the distant horizon, while just
beyond it, looming up, was what seemed to be a dark cloud.

"There she is!" cried the doctor, glass in hand. "We will soon know the
truth now, Rodd."

"That, sir?" said a voice close behind them. "That's Saint Helena."

The doctor started round as though he had been stung, to stare fiercely
in the frank face of Joe Cross, who looked rather thin and
hollow-cheeked, but had declared himself well enough to take the morning
watch.

"It is, sir," said the man, who took the doctor's angry stare for a look
of doubt. "That's right enough, though it don't look like an island.
It's the big rock where they've got Bony shut up."

"Bah!" snapped the doctor, and he turned on his heel and walked away.

"Turned out of his bunk wrong side up'ards, sir?" asked the man, with a
smile.

"Pah!" ejaculated Rodd, and he stamped off in the other direction.

"Old 'un's been giving it to him, I suppose," said Joe to himself. "Oh,
I know; he'd been upsettin