Why did you not try for a berth with an Atlantic line!" "There was some trouble about your Board of Trade rules and I might have been required to prove my qualifications for an English certificate.
While I was inquiring I heard an engineer was wanted on board _Ardrigh_.
The regulations don't apply to coasting voyages." "You might have got your certificate.

Would it not have been worth while ?" Lister hesitated.

His main object for joining the _Ardrigh_ was that she sailed from Liverpool and he wanted to see Barbara now and then.

As a rule, he was frank, but he did not think it prudent to enlighten Cartwright.
"I don't know," he said.

"You see, I may go back to the railroad soon." He wondered whether Cartwright did see and thought he had remarked his hesitation; the old fellow was very keen.