heard Polynesia, who was sitting on my shoulder watching the
whole affair, mutter beneath her breath,

"There he goes--lending his last blessed penny--three pounds
ten--all the money we had for the whole trip! Now we haven't
the price of a postage-stamp aboard if we should lose an anchor
or have to buy a pint of tar--Well, let's, pray we don't run out
of food--Why doesn't he give them the ship and walk home?"

Presently with the help of the map the course of the boat was
changed and, to Mrs. Luke's great relief, we made for Penzance
and dry land.

I was tremendously interested to see how a ship could be steered
into a port at night with nothing but light-houses and a compass
to guide you. It seemed to me that the Doctor missed all the
rocks and sand-bars very cleverly.

We got into that funny little Cornish harbor about eleven o'clock
that night. The Doctor took his stowaways on shore in our small
row-boat which we kept on the deck of the Curlew and found them
rooms at the hotel there. When he got back he told us that Mrs.
Luke had gone straight to bed and was feeling much better.

It was now after midnight; so we decided to stay in the harbor
and wait till morning before setting out again.

I was glad to get to bed, although I felt that staying up so
tremendously late was great fun. As I climbed into the bunk over
the Doctor's and pulled the blankets snugly round me, I found I