Anyhow, if the other is the true thing, and you should all see old England again with some of the stuff in that dead-house, I've got three nieces living down at home whom you might remember.

Don't say nothing of what I told you to the Captain till this night's game is played, seeing that it might upset him, and he'll need to keep cool up to ten o'clock, and afterwards too, perhaps.

Only if we shouldn't meet again, say that Samuel Quick sent him his duty and God's blessing.

And the same on yourself, Doctor, and your son, too.

And now here comes the Professor, so good-bye." A minute later they had left me, and I stood watching them until the two stars of light from their lanterns vanished into the blackness..