"Right-o, every time!" clicked Eph. "If anything has happened to good
old Jack through that pair, then they're the only ones to be watched!"

Dinner, that evening, wasn't as confident a meal for the submarine
party as luncheon had been. Both Mlle. Nadiboff and the Frenchman
were in the dining room, though they did not sit together.

Later, the young Russian woman appeared in the ballroom. She was as
eagerly sought as a partner as she had been the night before.

Farnum and his friends did not enter the ballroom, not having brought
evening dress ashore with them.

Yet, some of the time, they remained near the entrance to the ballroom.
It was here that M. Lemaire, in evening clothes, saw them and bowed most
amiably.

"You do not care for the gaiety of the dance?" he inquired.

"No," replied Jacob Farnum, evasively. "We are looking for Captain
Benson, and thought it just possible he had entered the ballroom."

"Did he not tell you, this afternoon, whether he would be at the dance?"
Lemaire inquired, in a tone of polite curiosity only.

"We didn't see him this afternoon," replied Mr. Farnum, rather curtly.

"You astonish me," cried the Frenchman.

"In fact we have not seen Captain Benson since we left him on an