It was when Cockatoo was talking thus that he was seen by Eliza Flight, who mistook him--very naturally--for a woman.

Cockatoo then returned by boat to the Gartley jetty and told his master.

Afterwards, the Professor, at a much later hour, went down to the jetty and was rowed up to Pierside by the Kanaka." "That was when Mrs.Jasher saw them," said Random, much interested.
"Yes," said Archie.

"And then, if you remember; she watched for the return of the couple." "It was nearly midnight when the boat was brought alongside the sloping stone bank of the alley which ran past the Sailor's Rest.

No one was about at that hour, not even a policeman, and there was no light in Sidney Bolton's window.