"Yes," I said briefly, and stared.
She sat down; she was a large woman, and there was a soothing placidity
about all her movements.
"I thought so," she said. "Captain Markham has been calling for you
night and day--if we could have ascertained your other name we should
have sent for you, but when he was conscious he said there was no Pam."
She looked at me thoughtfully. "So you are Pam," she said.
I nodded. "But it couldn't have been me he was calling for.
I--I--why?"
"He is very ill," she said, "that is why I am going to let you see him
to-night. I do not think he will live till morning."