He was polite, and received his petting with soft-shining eyes, tail-waggings and the customary body- wrigglings; but he was restless, and continually listened to distant sounds and yearned away to be gone.

This was not lost upon the boy, who, before he curled himself down to sleep, securely tied to a tree the end of the cord that was about Jerry's neck.
After straining against the cord for a time, Jerry surrendered and slept.
But not for long.

Skipper was too much with him.

He knew, and yet he did not know, the irretrievable ultimate disaster to Skipper.

So it was, after low whinings and whimperings, that he applied his sharp first-teeth to the sennit cord and chewed upon it till it parted.
Free, like a homing pigeon, he headed blindly and directly for the beach and the salt sea over which had floated the _Arangi_, on her deck Skipper in command.