I never suspected for a minute that you regarded Mr. Trego as a dangerous character.

We found Trego at table.

Now it occurs to me that I must set down in their order the events of that day in their proper sequence, which compels me to tell of my meeting with Mr. Trego in the Hong-Kong-Shanghai Bank.

I told myself that it was not my fault that I had been stripped of my arms and made a prisoner, and blamed Captain Riggs for allowing Thirklein the character of the Rev. Luther Meekerto throw all the suspicion of the murder of Trego on me and hold his own liberty and good-standing as a passenger.

It was a signal conveyed by Trego to the captain, in which he cautioned him to silence about something, by putting his finger to his lips, as if some subject were tabooed.