24/24 Indeed I shall know nothing of you. Let me have a line before a month is over.' This he promised, and then they parted. There were still four hours before the ship lay at her moorings; but during all that time Mrs.Smith was not seen by Caldigate. As he got into the boat which took him and Shand from the ship to the pier at Sandridge she kissed her hand to him over the side of the vessel. Before eleven o'clock Dick Shand and his companion were comfortably put up at the Miners' Home in Flinders Lane.. |