But we shall need patience.

Ah! there is a boat coming alongside." He ran up on deck.

It proved, however, to be only a shore boat, bringing off George Lechmere, who, having met a comrade in the town, had asked leave to spend the evening with him.

He was, of course, ignorant of all that had happened since he had left, and Frank told him.
"I have no doubt whatever that she has been carried off," he said, "and there is only one man who could have done it." "That villain, Carthew," George Lechmere exclaimed.
"Yes, he is the man I suspect, George.

I heard this evening that he had been hit tremendously hard on the turf at Goodwood.