Chapter 5

And then suddenly he spoke one intelligent sentence. "It will be all right, William. Quite all right on the other side." For a moment he sat bolt upright, and his eyes behind his spectacles were shining with a strange look of exaltation. Then he fell back: the eleventh case had gone the way of the others. "A gallant little gentleman," said a voice behind us. The skipper was standing in the door. "I don't know what I'd have done without him." We both stared at him speechlessly. "And I'm glad you were with him to hel…