He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his ship. To his astonishment, he finds that, it in spite of a lifetime's experience, he does not know what the foremost hands or even his own officers are thinking. They know, as he does not, that the Surprise has a stranger aboard. And what they, for their part, do not know is that the stranger is potentially as dangerous as a light in the powder magazine.

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