'Too true, general!' 'But stay!' cried Mr Norris the father, taking him by the arm.

'Surely you crossed in the Screw, general ?' 'Well! so I did,' was the reply.
'Possible!' cried the young ladies.

'Only think!' The general seemed at a loss to understand why his having come home in the Screw should occasion such a sensation, nor did he seem at all clearer on the subject when Mr Norris, introducing him to Martin, said: 'A fellow-passenger of yours, I think ?' 'Of mine ?' exclaimed the general; 'No!' He had never seen Martin, but Martin had seen him, and recognized him, now that they stood face to face, as the gentleman who had stuck his hands in his pockets towards the end of the voyage, and walked the deck with his nostrils dilated.
Everybody looked at Martin.

There was no help for it.

The truth must out.
'I came over in the same ship as the general,' said Martin, 'but not in the same cabin.