"Some fool had put the main of her provisions aboard the longboat; that is what sticks to me, and won't let me sleep.

We took a chance, but we didn't give one.

I think I told you there was a woman aboard the cutter, that sick girl, sir.

Oh, but it was hard lines for her, poor thing! I see her pale and calm; oh, Lord, so pale and calm; every night of my life; she kneeled aboard the cutter with her white hands a-clasped together, praying." "Certainly, it is all very shocking," said Wardlaw; "but then, you know, if they had escaped, they would have exposed us.

Believe me, it is all for the best." Wylie looked at him with wonder.