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there any other chanst to try?'
The captain held his peace.
'There you are then!' said Huish with a shrug.
Davis fell again to his pacing.
'Oh, you may do sentry-go till you're blue in the mug, you won't find
anythink else,' said Huish.
There was a little silence; the captain, like a man launched on a swing,
flying dizzily among extremes of conjecture and refusal.
'But see,' he said, suddenly pausing. 'Can you? Can the thing be done?
It--it can't be easy.'
'If I get within twenty foot of 'im it'll be done; so you look out,'
said Huish, and his tone of certainty was absolute.
'How can you know that?' broke from the captain in a choked cry. 'You
beast, I believe you've done it before!'
'Oh, that's private affyres,' returned Huish, 'I ain't a talking man.'
A shock of repulsion struck and shook the captain; a scream rose almost
to his lips; had he uttered it, he might have cast himself at the same
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