It's a serious matter, mark ye, for a respectable clerk like myself to be aiding and abetting in this mad chase; and, to tell the truth, Trenoweth, I took a fancy to ye when first I set eyes on your face, and--Don't say another word, I'll ask ye.' "My friend's eyes were full of tears.

I arose, shook him silently by the hand, and went to my room.
"Nov.

26th .-- I am off.

I write this in my cabin, alone--Colliver having had another assigned to him by Mr.Sanderson's express wish.
He saw Colliver for the first time to-day on the quay, and drew me aside at the last moment to warn me against 'that fellow with the devilish eyes.' As I stood on deck and watched his stiff little figure waving me farewell until it melted into the crowd, and Bombay sank behind me as the city of a dream, I wondered with sadness on the little chance we had of ever meeting on this earth again.

Colliver's voice at my elbow aroused me.
"'Odd man, that friend of yours--made up of emotion, and afraid of his life to show it.