He descended the main ladder, and Wilton, who expected the visit when he heard the stroke of the bell, retreated to his mess room, and threw himself into his berth.

Harry walked around the steerage, and glanced into the gangways, from which the rooms opened.
"Harry," said Shuffles, in a low tone, as the master was about to return to the deck.
"Did you speak to me ?" asked Harry, stepping up to the bars of the cage.
"I did.

Will you oblige me by telling the chaplain that I would like to see him ?" added the prisoner.
"I will;" and Harry knocked at the door of the professors' cabin..