Tomorrow morning I should have to send in a statement that two guests have arrived here, and it is therefore most desirable that you should move without delay.
Fortunately the wives of two or three of my captains live here; one of these especially, an excellent woman, has a house much larger than she needs, and takes in lodgers, generally captains whose families do not reside here, when their ships are in port.
Therefore the fact that a sailor, with a sister and her child, have taken rooms there will excite no suspicion, whatever.

She will, as a matter of course, send in your name to the police of the town, together with your passes.

They will be marked and returned without, probably, being glanced at." "I think that that will be an excellent arrangement, sir," Leigh said, "and I quite see that our stay here might be awkward for you, as well as us." "I will at once go with you; that is, as soon as you have told your sister the reason why it will be better for you to establish yourselves elsewhere than here.

I may tell you that I, myself, have been quietly making preparations for flight; but it is not all my captains whom I can trust.

The Henriette, which I expect here shortly, has been delayed; but on her arrival I propose that we shall all cross the Channel together.