I take in her breakfast, but she touch not a morsel.

So I tell Senor Estada, and he say, 'then bring her out to dinner with me; I'll make the hussy eat, if I have to choke it down her dainty throat,'" "Good; I'll have a look at her myself then.

Now hurry up those things, Steward, and remember what I sent you after." He brought the shaving set, and writing materials first, explaining that he would have to go down into the lazaret, and break open some packages for the tobacco and pipe.

The moment the fellow disappeared I grasped the opportunity.

Where Estada had gone, whether back into his stateroom, or on deck, I had no means of knowing.