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I had been on deck about a quarter of an hour when Vanderdecken, who all this time was standing motionless at the rail looking -- as who shall tell with what fancies in him and what visions -- at the windward sea, came down to the lee of the house as though he all along knew I was there, though I can swear he never once turned nor appeared to see me, and said --
"Is the lady in the cabin?"