The latter telegraphed that he would send a vessel for them immediately, and as she was now lying at St.John's they would not have to wait very long.
The fact was that the news of the arrival of the Dipsey at Cape Tariff had come to Sardis a week after Clewe's descent into the shaft, and he was absorbed, body and soul, in his underground discoveries.

He was not wanting in sympathy, or even affection, for the people who had been doing his work, and his interest in their welfare and their achievements was as great as it ever had been, but the ideas and thoughts which now occupied his mind were of a character which lessened and overshadowed every other object of consideration.

Most of the messages sent to Cape Tariff had come from Margaret Raleigh..