'How much luggage, sir ?' 'As little as they can conveniently take with them,' I said.

'How many persons ?' 'The two ladies, the child, and myself.' 'Can you row, sir ?' 'In any water you like, Mr.Gardener, fresh or salt'.

Think of asking Me, an athletic Englishman, if I could row! In an hour more we were ready to embark, and the blessed fog was thicker than ever.

Mrs.
Presty yielded under protest; Kitty was wild with delight; her mother was quiet and resigned.

But one circumstance occurred that I didn't quite understand--the presence of a stranger on the pier with a gun in his hand." "You don't mean one of the spies ?" "Nothing of the sort; I mean an idea of the gardener's.