The personal letter was short.

He said that his gratitude was unspeakable, and now must be so for ever.

He begged us not to let the world know who he was, nor his relationship to Mrs.Falchion, unless she wished it; he asked me to hand privately to her the packet bearing her name.

Lastly, he requested that the paper for the public be given to the captain of the 'Fulvia'.
Going out into the passage, I found a steward, who hurriedly told me that just before the alarm was given he had seen Boyd Madras going aft in that strange costume, which he mistook for a dressing-gown, and he had come to see if, by any chance, it was he who had gone overboard.

I told him that it was.