Atlantis

here to be seen, and Frederick seated himself on a bench near the entrance to the main companionway. With his collar turned up and his hat drawn over his forehead, he succumbed

g. The waves were rolling heavily against the tiny dining-room and pressing hard on the creaking hull. Bismarck, a huge figure in armour, and Roland, the valiant warrior in armour, were laughing grimly and conversing. Frederick saw both wading through the sea. Roland was holding Mara, the tiny dancer, on his right palm. Every now and then Frederick shivered. The ship careened, a stiff southeaster h

nly the screw

metimes one engineer in the engine-room would call out to another, and the cla

aking for him. It was the clothing manufacturer whom he had met at Southampton, looking more like a man in his death throes than o

to be reckoned among the heroes, then ther

had said, "I suffer from seasickness, from the

tremes of suffering

eceive orders from the first or second mate, or whatever officer happened to be on duty. Often an hour and more would pass without the summons, and the handsome

uestion to put to him was whether he liked his work. The boy answered with a resigned smile, which heig

ling vessel. There is a mate of mine here on the Roland," he added in a tone of great admiration,

y nineteen or twenty hours, and already found it a petty hardship. "If the Roland doesn't make better time," he calculated, "I shall have to go through the same difficulties of exis

osition on land," Frederick asked, "w

emphasising his reply with

all figure of the first mate. "How would you like to come to my roo