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&quot;<br />

Do<br />

&quot;<br />

My<br />

Burden is Resumed<br />

selves. Fishley and Trust weren t very pretty<br />

to look<br />

at when we pulled em out. I never saw such a purple<br />

face as Fishley s, but he came to when we brought him<br />

out and soaked his head ;<br />

and we ve got him and Trust<br />

and Somers, all in irons.&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

So you convinced the Captain that Fishley was one<br />

of the conspirators<br />

?&quot;<br />

&quot;Yes; and it was easy, for there was the testimony<br />

of a lot<br />

of the passengers that they saw him trying to<br />

stab you.&quot;<br />

you think Fishley closed the ventilators ? &quot;<br />

I<br />

asked, remembering what Trust had said to Somers.<br />

&quot;What<br />

ventilators?&quot;<br />

&quot;Those<br />

running into the shaft tunnel.&quot;<br />

The Doctor smiled.<br />

&quot;<br />

There are no ventilators to the tunnel.<br />

All the air<br />

you got was from the engine-room, through<br />

Which Fishley kept closed,&quot; I added.<br />

the door.&quot;<br />

&quot;Did he? The scoundrel! Well, it turned out as<br />

badly for him as for the rest. He didn t count on that<br />

jamming up toward the stern-post.<br />

That was what<br />

made the trouble for him.&quot;<br />

&quot;But how about Bill?&quot;<br />

&quot;Bill hasn t been seen. He probably heard about<br />

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