9/20 There is plenty of wine in the medical stores. It was a good joke for the parson to suppose I was drunk." "Perhaps you were," suggested Wilton. It waked me up a little, but I knew what I was about." "I think you were a confounded fool to do what you did." "Wilton, I'm not going to live in the steerage--you may take my word for it. I've been an officer too long to come down to that. If we don't succeed in making a chain, I shall quit the concern the first time I put my foot on shore in Ireland." "What do you mean by making a chain ?" asked Wilton, eagerly. |