2/20 You forget what we do on board. Captain Gordon himself calls me Mr.May!" Some laughed, others were extremely impressed. "Now! Let him see you, Harry." "What matters Ned Anderson to me ?" said Harry; and, with an odd mixture of shamefacedness and cordiality, he marched full up to his old school-fellow, and shook hands with him, as if able, in the plenitude of his officership, to afford plenty of good-humoured superiority. Tom had meantime subsided out of all view. But poor Harry's exultation had a fall. |