She knows the way." Of course we had no objection to this, and the girl was helped aboard.
Then we sailed off, and the gentleman waved his hat to us.

If I had been in his place, I don't think I should have felt much like waving my hat.
[Illustration: "THE GENTLEMAN WAVED HIS HAT TO US."] Menendez now said that he had an oil-skin coat stowed away forward, and I got it and put it around the girl.

She snuggled herself up in it as comfortably as she could, and began to talk.
"The way of it was this," she said.

"Father, he said we'd go out sailing, and mother and I went with him, and when we got down to the wharf, there were a lot of boats, but they all had men to them, and so father, he said he wanted to sail the boat himself, and mother, she said that if he did she wouldn't go; but he said pooh! he could do it as well as anybody, and wasn't going to have any man.

So he got a boat without a man, and mother, she didn't want me to go; but I went, and he stuck fast coming back, because he never will listen to anything anybody tells him, as mother and I found out long ago.