CHAPTER XLVI

MR. WATSON IS ASTONISHED At dinner-time Mr. Sabin was the most silent of the little quartette who occupied the head of the table. The captain, who had discovered that notwithstanding their stoppage they had made a very fair day's run, and had just noticed a favourable change in the wind, was in a better humour, and on the whole was disposed to feel satisfied with himself for the way he had repulsed the captain of the _Kaiser Wilhelm_. He departed from his usual custom so far as to drink a glass of Mr. Sabin's champ…