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At breakfast Professor Van Dorn was silent and preöccupied, and as soon as the meal was over asked for a private interview with the person in authority aboard the _Seagull_. We went to the Captain's room, a large cabin where all could be comfortably seated. None of us had much confidence in the stranger's romantic assertions of the night before, but we were all curious to know what tale the man had to relate, and were disposed to listen. Archie's eyes bunged out so far from his round face that I took pity on the boy and asked him to join us. Ned Britton came, too, for he had been present at Van Dorn's rescue and we trusted him implicitly.
When we were seated and the Professor had assured himself we could not be overheard, he at once asked permission to relate the business that had brought him to Egypt and the strange experiences he had encountered here. We told him to fire away and we would hear his story.