You and your mother shall come aboard as we're warping out of the dock, or at Gravesend if you like, and I'll take you down Channel with me.

I've got to put in at Plymouth, and I'll drop you there, or at Penzance, whichever you like, and then you can come back to London by rail.

Hallo, who's that ?" There was a ring at the old iron gate, and Mark rose and walked to the window.
"A sailor, father." "Sailor!" said the captain, rising.

"Oh, it's Billy Widgeon! Tell the girl to show him in." Mark went out to speak to the servant, and the next minute the big front door-mat was having a hard time as the sailor stood rubbing away at his perfectly clean boots, and breathing hard with the exertion, staring furtively at Mark Strong the while..