"The discomforts of travelling without luggage are nothing compared with the importance of discovering this human fiend." "Luggage--pshaw!" Laura exclaimed.

"Who cares about that ?" "And nothing," Lenora declared firmly, as she caught at Quest's arm, "would keep me away." "I'll telephone to Scotland Yard, in case they care to send a man down," Quest decided.

"We must remember, though," he reminded them, "that it will very likely be a wild-goose chase." "It won't be the first," Laura observed grimly, "but Craig's on board that ship all right."...
They caught a train to Southampton, where they were joined by a man from Scotland Yard.

The little party drove as quickly as possible to the docks.
"Where does the _Barton_ start from ?" Quest asked the pier-master.
The man pointed a little way down the harbor.
"She's not in dock, sir," he said.

"She's lying out yonder.