here--the men are not likely to meet elsewhere. They are
appointed to separate ships. Frank belongs to the _Sea-mew_, and
Wardour to the _Wanderer_. See! Captain Helding has done. My
husband is coming this way. Let me make sure. Let me speak to
him."

Lieutenant Crayford returned to his wife. She spoke to him
instantly.

"William! you have got a new volunteer who joins the _Wanderer_?"

"What! you have been listening to the captain and me?"

"I want to know his name?"

"How in the world did you manage to hear what we said to each
other?"

"His name? has the captain given you his name?"

"Don't excite yourself, my dear. Look! you are positively
alarming Miss Burnham. The new volunteer is a perfect stranger to
us. There is his name--last on the ship's list."

Mrs. Crayford snatched the list out of her husband's hand, and
read the name:

"RICHARD WARDOUR."