CHAPTER XXVI

A Friend in Need "Well done, Cassidy!" exclaimed Lieutenant-Commander Stockdale when the A.B., with his clothes already stiff with ice, came on board. "Go below--don't waste time--and shift into a dry kit; and tell Jones to serve out a stiff tot to you three men." "Beg pardon, sir," said Cassidy, "but we found this gadget lashed round Flirt's neck--something written on it by Mr. Fordyce." The Hon. Derek took the paper parcel. He recognized it as the dummy package that he had assisted to make up in order to tackle…