Captain Barker, you told me you took this lad from his dead mother.

She was a Mistress Salt, I believe." "Excuse me if I fail to see--" "You will see in a moment.

I am not wrong, perhaps, in supposing that lady to have been the wife of Roderick Salt, sometime my comrade in the Foot Guards.

He married in Harwich, I remember; and in many respects the resemblance which this lad bears to him is remarkable." "There is no likeness in their characters, my lord." "I daresay not; indeed, I hope not.

But suppose now I inform you that Roderick Salt is still alive--" The Earl broke off and looked at the two captains narrowly.
"Did you know that ?" he asked.
There was no answer.
"I seem to remember an expression which you, Captain Runacles, let fall this afternoon.