I can only suppose he thought he'd finally disposed of me by shipping me aboard the _Josephine_." "A sight easier to have shipped you into the sea with a shot at your heels, and a sight safer too." "It is so," I said.

"And how I come to be here, and alive, I cannot tell." As soon as the lung healed, and he was able to get about in the fresh air, he picked up rapidly, and we began to plan our next move.
We grew very friendly, as was only natural, and our minds were open to one another.

The only point on which I found him in any way awanting was in a full and proper appreciation of his sister.

He conceded, in brotherly fashion, that she was a good little girl, and pretty, as girls went, and possessed of a spirit of her own.

And I, who had never had a sister, nor indeed much to do with girls as a class, could only marvel at his dullness, for to me Carette was the very rose and crown of life, and the simple thought of her was a cordial to the soul.
I confided to him my plans for escape, and we laid our heads together as to the outer stockade, but with all our thinking could not see the way across it.