Come, now, I don't believe you can afford to turn this offer down." "It looks good," I confessed, but still hesitating.

"Only I shall have to have it in writing, and more in detail." "We'll talk that over in the morning; it's late now.

Take the third stateroom starboard: it's all ready for you." "Then I am no longer to consider myself a prisoner onboard ?" "Certainly not.

Practically you are one of us." "And I have the freedom of the deck ?" He smiled grimly, gazing intently at me.
"That is safe enough, I reckon, even if I questioned your interest in this adventure.

There must be ten miles of water already between us and the coast.