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`` You will repent this unkind treatment , '' said Fairfax sullenly , but he proceeded to dress nevertheless , and in a few minutes he left the stateroom . Robert locked the door after him and then , returning to bed , he said with a sigh of relief : `` Now I can sleep without fear . I am sure that fellow is a rascal , and I am glad to be rid of him . '' When Robert awoke in the morning it was eight o'clock and the steamer lay quietly at its pier . Almost all the passengers had landed and he was nearly alone on the great steamer . Of course Mortimer Fairfax had gone with the rest ; in fact , Fairfax was one of the first to land . He had passed the remainder of the night in the saloon , anxious , as long as he remained on board , lest Robert should denounce him for his attempted theft .