"Those lights the other night!" he said. "Were they a ship's lights?"
Again he looked at the Second Mate; but the Second was staring at me.
When eight bells went, at four o'clock, and the other watch came on deck to relieve us, it had been broad daylight for some time. Before we went below, the Second Mate had the three t'gallants set; and now that it was light, we were pretty curious to have a look aloft, especially up the fore; and Tom, who had been up to overhaul the gear, was questioned a lot, when he came down, as to whether there were any signs of anything queer up there. But he told us there was nothing unusual to be seen.
"God knows!" he said, with a quick glance round to see whether any of the men were about.
I took hold of myself, as it were, and glanced at him, in an apparently careless manner.
"They'd believe, if they'd been in this packet in the middle watch this morning," I said.
"There's another a little further aft," I muttered.