They said they saw him shot, and, looking back, saw you killed over his body.

It was never doubted a moment, and your names appeared in the list of the killed." "Well, sir, we are alive nevertheless, and Dick is by this time at home with his people.

He would have come on and joined with me at once, sir, only he got his arm broken, and was laid up with fever after some fighting we had among the Polish insurgents." "Among what!" Mr.Hethcote exclaimed, astonished.

"But never mind that now; I am glad indeed to hear that Hawtry also is alive, but you must tell me all about it presently.

There are your other friends waiting to speak to you." By this time the news of Jack's return had spread through the ship.
The midshipmen had all run on deck, and the men crowded the waist, or, regardless of discipline, stood on the bulwarks.