Will you go down with me, Lucy ?" The daughter took his arm and was about to lead him away.

He stopped and turned again to Chester.
"Excuse me," he said, "but what was your mother's full name ?" "Anna Lawrence." "Thank you.

All right, Lucy.

Let's be going." Chester watched them disappear down the companionway, then looked out to sea at the black smoke made by a steamer crawling along the horizon, from Liverpool outward bound..