Gordon Doyle

Gordon Doyle is three weeks out from Liverpool on the City of Prague, bound for New York with a broken shaft and a lunatic for a cabinmate, and he is engaged to marry Janette Harford, whom he met a year ago in London and whose family cut up rough about the match. He explains, with the calm of a man who thinks his listener half awake, that Janette sailed on the Morrow to avoid detection, and that the broken shaft may yet let her reach New York first. When the lunatic asks what he knows of Janette Harford, Doyle changes color and lays his fingers on the man's wrist.