The captain ordered Mr.Donald to sit down facing him, saying with a sort of mock politeness that they should not really enjoy their food, unless their host took the head of the table.

Several times, while they were eating, I saw the captain looking hard at Alice and me.
Presently he said: "'I have it now.

Why, you are the Ellison girls, ain't you ?' "I was astonished, as you may suppose, but I said: "'I am Miss Ellison, and Mrs.Donald is my sister.' "'By Jove, who would have thought it!' he said.

'Do you know who I am ?' "I said I didn't, although really I seemed to have some sort of recollection of his face.
"'Why,' he said, 'don't you remember Tom Thorne, whose father the squire turned out of the public house?
And to think, now, that the squire's daughters are waiting on me.

This is a piece of luck.
"'Well, my dears,' he went on, with a horrible grin, 'you need not tell me how you came here now, you will have plenty of time for that.