he worships me! It will be a test for my
personal magnetism, the handling of Gieseppe Jones will. He hates a
thief worse than the devil hates holy water. If I could make him steal
for me, I would know that I could do anything.

"That's our young poet in the forecastle!" said Cleggett. "I wonder if
Loge still held him." And then as the memory of the boy's ravings came
to him he mused: "Yes--he held the boy! That is what the fellow meant
in his delirium. Do you remember that he kept saying: 'I'm a
revolutionist, not a crook!'? And yet he continued to obey Loge!"

"Is it not strange," said Lady Agatha, "that the man should take such
pride in working ruin?"

All three were silent for a space. And then they looked at each other
with a shiver. The sense of the strong and sinister personality of
Logan Black struck on their spirits like a bleak wind.

Cleggett was the first to recover himself.

"God willing," he said solemnly, "I will bring that man to justice
personally!"

Just then two bells struck. It had taken them more time than they had
realized to make even a partial examination of the contents of the box.
Cleggett, when the bell sounded, looked at his watch to see what time
it was--he was still a little unfamiliar with the nautical system.

"He will go to any length to get this back into his possession," said
Cleggett, as he dumped the heap of incriminating evidence back into the
box and began to nail the boards on again.

"Any length," echoed the Doctor.

Pat upon the thought came the sound of taxicabs without. They went on
deck and saw a sinister procession rolling by. It consisted of three
machines, and there were three men in each cab. Loge and Pierre were
in the foremost one. None of the company vouchsafed so much as a
glance in the direction of the Jasper B. as the cabs whirled past
towards Morris's. It was undoubtedly a reinforcement of gunmen.

"Ah!" said Cleggett, pointing to them. "The real battle is about to
begin! They are making ready for the attack!"

CHAPTER XIV

CLEGGETT STANDS BY HIS SHIP

Cleggett did not fear (or rather, expect, since there was very little
that Cleggett feared) an attack until well after nightfall.
Nevertheless, he began to prepare for it at once. He called the entire
ship's company aft, with the exception of Miss Medley, who was on duty
with Giuseppe Jones.

"My friends--for I hope we stand in the relation of friends as well as
that of c