What say you?
Shall she go along ?' "And I had not known that he had any wife or lady.

And I looked my surprise and incredulity.
"'Just that you do not believe I shall take her on the cruise,' he laughed, wickedly, madly, in my astonished face.

'Come, you shall meet her.' "Straight to his bedroom and his bed he led me, and, turning down the covers, showed there to me, asleep as she had slept for many a thousand years, the mummy of a slender Egyptian maid.
"And she sailed with us on the long vain voyage to the South Seas and back again, and, steward, on my honour, I grew quite fond of the dear maid myself." The Ancient Mariner gazed dreamily into his glass, and Dag Daughtry took advantage of the pause to ask: "But the young doctor?
How did he take the failure to find the treasure ?" The Ancient Mariner's face lighted with joy.
"He called me a delectable old fraud, with his arm on my shoulder while he did it.

Why, steward, I had come to love that young man like a splendid son.

And with his arm on my shoulder, and I know there was more than mere kindness in it, he told me we had barely reached the River Plate when he discovered me.