CHAPTER ONE.
BRAVE AND TRUE, BY E DAWSON.
"But I say, Martin, tell us about it! My pater wrote to me that you'd done no end of heroic things, and saved Bullace senior from being killed.

His pater told him, so I know it's all right.

But wasn't it a joke you two should be on the same ship ?" Martin looked up at his old schoolfellow.

He had suddenly become a person of importance in the well-known old haunts where he had learned and played only as one of the schoolboys.
"It wasn't much of a joke sometimes," said he.

"I thought at first that I was glad to see a face I knew.