strangely disappearing and reappearing had disappeared again; nor about the woman whom I had met on the Admiralty Pier. I wondered when he might reappear once more. There was no proper reason why I should not have told Rosa about these persons, but some instinctive feeling, some timidity of spirit, prevented me from doing so.

“How thrilling! Were you frightened on the steamer?” she asked.

“Yes,” I admitted frankly.

“You may not think it,” she said, “but I should not have been frightened. I have never been frightened at Death.”

“But have you ever been near him?”

“Who knows?” she answered thoughtfully.