He had entertained some fears, which were not, perhaps, quite removed by Dick's manly assurances.
A cabin had been taken for the joint use of the young men on board the Goldfinder, a large steamer which was running at the time from London to Melbourne, doing the voyage generally in about two months.

But they were going as second-class passengers and their accommodation therefore was limited.

Dick had insisted on this economy, which was hardly necessary to Caldigate, and which was not absolutely pressed upon the other.

But Dick had insisted.

'Let us begin as we mean to go on,' he had said; 'of course we've got to rough it.