41 Lure O Gold 1904

The Lure o 9
Gold
master s house. My impulse was to run up
to them
and tell them both of
my discoveries then and there
to say that I suspected that my gold had been taken
from the steerage and hidden away somewhere in the
lower hold, and to charge the third officer with com
plicity in the matter. Of course, I did not know that
these were the facts, but I could not rest until some
thing should be done. I wanted the trunk broken open
at once, and if the gold were not in it of which I
now felt positive I wanted a search made of the
lower hold, where the treasure had probably been
secreted.
But as I reached the spot where the two officers
stood, my awe of the Captain, who represented
to me
the monarch of our little world afloat, reasserted itself.
I probably should not have hesitated, however, had it
not been for the fact that he seemed in deep concern.
He would put up
his night glass and peer anxiously
forward into the dun masses of clouds that were racing
down toward us, and then look at an instrument be
fore him and shake his head.
"Is it
going to be much of a storm?" I heard the
Doctor ask as I stood near at hand, but as wholly unob
served as if I did not exist for them.
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