3/8 When he found I was going abroad he declared he would go along on the same steamer. At the time he must have thought I was going by one of the regular liners; but it is plain he followed me up pretty close and found I was going over this way. As there is no second-class passage on this boat, he decided he could not travel in the same class with me without being discovered, and he resolved to go as one of the crew, if he could get on that way. That's how he happens to be here." "If what you say is true, it will go pretty hard with Mr.Harris. We'll have him ironed and--" A cry of rage broke from the lips of the accused. |