Then he put on his cap, took a stick from the corner, and went out into the passage.

But there he remembered, and came quickly back.
He folded Hilda's letter and put it away in a drawer; then he went out again.

"Are you ready, Pennell ?" he called.
The two of them left camp and set out across the docks.

As they crossed a bridge a one-horse cab came into the road from a side-street and turned in their direction.

"Come on," said Peter.