"You take an expensive way of getting to Hoboken," smilingly said Captain Jake Ashcroft.

"Ah! My wife has been very ill since the loss of our child," was Braun's ready response.

"So feeble that I did not dare to drag her across New York.

At least, she has some comfort in this way.

Poor thing! She is fast asleep! We have to give her sedatives; her nerves are simply wrecked.