." She broke off and put out a hand to help him with the haulage tackle.

"Where are you taking her ?" "Her?
The boat?
Oh, back to Hucks's--Christopher Hucks, Anchor Wharf, Canal End Basin.

'Anchor,' you'll observe,--supposed emblem of Hope." He laughed bitterly.
"Yes, yes," she nodded.

"And quick--quick as ever you can! Here, let me help--" She caught at one of the two crowbars that served for mooring-posts and tugged at it, using all her strength.

"He'll be coming around here," she panted, and paused for a moment to listen.
"If he catches me talkin', God knows what'll happen!" She tugged again.
"Steady does it," said Mr.Mortimer; and having helped her to draw the bar up, he laid it in the boat as noiselessly as he could and ran to the second.