It must have been an hour or more after that when I found that they had writing-material in the little desk over there, and I wrote them a note.

But the fog was so thick then that it was no use for them to make a search." "Why didn't they run back to New York with you ?" "Simply because they thought they had done their duty by me, and that it would pay them better to come out to the fishing-grounds and take me in on their return.

I promised them money, but----" She laughingly held up a little purse.
"I had just ten cents in that, and you see I couldn't convince them of the fabulous wealth of my father and my friends by exhibiting that.

They said they would take me when they went in, and I could not get anything else out of them." "Perhaps a little money--as much or more than they can make out of this fishing-trip--will induce them to take us right in.

That is, as soon as the wind rises.