I don't mean--I am terribly sorry to see you like this--but I have so often wished to find you, and I could never succeed in doing so.' "He turned as he spoke to Captain Montagu.
"'I'll stay with him for an hour or two--as long as I can,' he said.
'I think,----' he added, glancing at the extempore sick-nurse, and hesitating a little.

Captain Montagu understood the glance.
"'Come, Watson,' he said to the young soldier, 'Mr.Berkeley will sit with--with Mr .-- --' "'Sawyer,' said Jack.
-- "'With Mr.Sawyer for a while.

Shall he return in an hour, Berkeley ?' "'Thank you, yes,' said Jack, and then he found himself alone with his old master.
"'You said you tried to trace me after I left Ryeburn,' said Sawyer.
'Will you tell me why?
There was no special reason for it, was there?
I know I was disliked, but the sort of enmity I incurred must soon have died out.

I was too insignificant for it to last.

And the one great endeavour I made was to injure no one.