"Going with the rest of us, Truax?" inquired Jack, pleasantly.
"No; I'm going to find a boarding-house. That will be cheaper than the
hotel."
So the other four kept straight on to the Maryland House, giving very
little more thought to the sulky one.
It was not until after supper that Eph turned the talk back to Sam Truax.
"I don't like the fellow, at all," declared young Somers. "He always wants
to be left alone in the engine room, for one thing."
"And I've made it my business, regular," added Williamson, the machinist,
"to see that he doesn't have his wish."
"He's always sulky, and kicking about everything," added Eph. "I may be
wrong, but I can't get it out of my head that the fellow came aboard on
purpose to be a trouble-maker."
"Why, what object could he have in that?" asked Captain Jack.
"Blessed if I know," replied Eph. "But that's the way I size the fellow
up. Now, take that time you were knocked senseless, back in Dunhaven. Who
could have done that? The more I think about Sam Truax, the more I suspect
him as the fellow who stretched you out."
"Again, what object could he have?" inquired Benson.
"Blessed if I know.
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