What has he sent that ashore for?
I should think I could be taken on board again to-day." "You won't be taken on board the _Northampton,_" Tom said, "for by this time she is down somewhere near Cape Horn." "Eh!" Dick exclaimed in astonishment.

"Why, how long have I been here ?" "A fortnight to-day, Dick." Dick was too surprised to make any remark for some time.
"But if the _Northampton_ has gone, how is it that you are here, Tom ?" "Simply because she has gone without me, Dick.

The old man was in a furious rage when he heard in the morning what had happened to you.

Of course, we were in a great stew--I mean the third mate and myself--when Allen came off at twelve o'clock without you, after waiting an hour and a half at the wharf for you to turn up.

We all felt sure that something must have happened, or you would never have been all that time late.
There was a row between Allen and the skipper the first thing in the morning.