Gray, an old friend, admitted when pressed that he had a passage on that most desirable boat.

But the offer of all the king's horses and all the king's gold left him unmoved.

Much, he said, as he would have liked to oblige, he and his wife were determined.

They would sail.
It was then that Geoffrey West made a compact with his friend.

He secured from him the necessary steamer labels and it was arranged that his baggage was to go aboard the Saronia as the property of Gray.
"But," protested Gray, "even suppose you do put this through; suppose you do manage to sail without a ticket--where will you sleep?
In chains somewhere below, I fancy." "No matter!" bubbled West.