hallucination of a woman--had you insisted it would have been
too late to have rescued him by the time the ship could have been
brought to a stop, and the boats lowered and rowed back miles in
search of the unknown spot where the tragedy had occurred. No,
you must not censure yourself. You have done more than any other
of us for poor Mr. Caldwell--you were the only one to miss him.
It was you who instituted the search."

The girl could not help but feel grateful to him for his kind and
encouraging words. He was with her often--almost constantly for
the remainder of the voyage--and she grew to like him very much
indeed. Monsieur Thuran had learned that the beautiful Miss Strong,
of Baltimore, was an American heiress--a very wealthy girl in her
own right, and with future prospects that quite took his breath away
when he contemplated them, and since he spent most of his time in
that delectable pastime it is a wonder that he breathed at all.

It had been Monsieur Thuran's intention to leave the ship at the
first port they touched after the disappearance of Tarzan. Did
he not have in his coat pocket the thing he had taken passage upon
this very boat to obtain? There was nothing more to detain him
here. He could not return to the Continent fast enough, that he
might board the first express for St. Petersburg.

But now another idea had obtruded itself, and was rapidly crowding
his original intentions into the background. That American fortune was
not to be sneezed at, nor was its possessor a whit less attractive.

"SAPRISTI! but she would cause a sensation in St. Petersburg." And
he would, too, with the assistance of her inheritance.