crew?"

"No, sir. I searched the deck one night when Adams, the lookout,
raised an alarm. We found nothing except--"

"Go on."

"He threw down a marlinespike at something moving in the bow. The
spike disappeared. We couldn't find it, although we could see where
it had struck the deck. Afterwards we found a marlinespike hanging
over the ship's side by a lanyard. It might have been the one we
looked for."

"Explain 'lanyard."'

"A cord--a sort of rope."

"It could not have fallen over the side and hung there?"

"It was fastened with a Blackwell hitch."

"Show us what you mean."

On cross-examination by Singleton's attorney, Burns was forced to
relate the incident of the night before his injury--that Mrs. Johns
had asked to see the axe, and he had shown it to her. He maintained
stoutly that she had not been near the bunk, and that the axe was
there when he locked the door.

Adams, called, testified to seeing a curious, misty-white object on