man, nothing
special anyway. I was forgotten. The waiters took no more notice of me
than if I'd been a portmanteau. And yet in the bank I had much more
money than Frank. Ah! but he was flashing it. Didn't they run!

"I tried to have it out with Rosa as we went down to the _Via Milano_
that night. Perhaps I was unreasonable. Perhaps I showed jealousy--a
foolish thing to do. We parted rather cross with each other. You see,
I'd never spent money like water on her. I was saving to have a home.

"I had rather a hard day following. The boilers had to be gone through,
and that's a job I never leave to the Second. The boilers are the vitals
of a ship. I don't care what happens in the engine-room so long as my
boilers are all right. And so I was a bit late getting away at night. I
went along to Rebecca's. Rosa was serving in the cafe, and I began to
grumble to Rebecca. I told her that if necessary I would pay for some
one else to do that work until we were married. Not that the chaps
annoyed Rosa now that she was engaged, but I didn't like the idea of it.
Rebecca said Rosa was doing it of her own accord. She said she didn't
know what had come over the girl. Rosa came upstairs, and when I told
her not to go into the cafe, she said she'd do as she liked. She said
she didn't want to go out that evening; would rather stay at home. We
had words....

"I left in a huff, I suppose, and went back to the ship. I felt badly
used. The Old Man came along to my room and spent a couple of hours
telling me how that new mess-man had won ten thousand francs. There were
all sorts of frills to the story as he knew it. One of the clerks at
the agent's had told him that the man was an English milord. That was a
bit of my brother's cleverness. He had registered at the _Bristol_ as
Francis Lord. Of course, the papers had made the most of it.

"For two days I never went ashore. I was annoyed at Rosa. You know,
these little tiffs are inevitable, though I must say we'd managed
without them up to this. I said to myself that when she wanted me again
she could have me. The mood lasted two days. I began to get anxious. I
couldn't rest. After all, we were engaged. The ship went home for survey
next voyage, it was rumoured, and I had promised Rosa we should go
together. I put on my shore-clothes and went up to Rebecca's. I went in
to have a drink first, intending to go round to the private door
afterwards. Just as I sat down Rebecca came in and saw me. She