cognizing Mrs.
Carr, who sat laughing, like Pleasure, at the helm. The other
occupants of the boat, who were not laughing, he guessed to be her
servants and the lady who figured on the passenger-list as Miss Terry,
a stout, solemn-looking person in spectacles.

"Now, then, Agatha," called out Mrs. Carr from the stern-sheets, "be
quick and jump up."

"My dear Mildred, I can't go up there; I can't, indeed. Why, the
thing's moving."

"But you must go up, or else be pulled up with a rope. Here, I will
show the way," and, moving down the boat, she sprang boldly, as it
rose with the swell, into the stalwart arms of the sailor who was
waiting on the gangway landing-stage, and thence ran up the steps to
the deck.

"Very well, I am going to Madeira. I don't know what you are going to
do; but you must make up your mind quick."

"Can't hold on much longer, mum," said the boatman, "she's getting way
on now."

"Come on, mum; I won't let you in," said the man of the ladder,
seductively.

"Oh, dear, oh, dear, what shall I do?" groaned Miss Terry, wringing
the hand that was not employed in holding on.

"John," called Mrs. Carr to a servant who was behind Miss Terry, and
looking considerably alarmed, "don't stand there like a fool; put Miss
Terry on to that ladder."

Mrs. Carr was evidently accustomed to be obeyed, for, thus admonished,
John seized the struggling and shrieking Miss Terry, and bore her to
the edge of the boat, where she was caught by two sailors, and, amidst
the cheers of excited passengers, fairly dragged on to the deck.

"Oh! Mrs. Carr," said the chief officer, reproachfully, when Miss
Terry had been satisfactorily deposited on a bench, "you are late
again; you were late last voyage."

"Not at all, Mr. Thompson. I hate spending longer than is necessary
aboard ship, so, when the train got in, I took a boat and went for a
row in the harbour. I knew that you would not go without me."

"Oh, yes, we should have, Mrs. Carr; the skipper heard about it
because he waited for you before."

"Well, here I am, and I promise that I won't do it again."

Mr. Thompson laughed, and passed on. At this moment Mrs. Carr
perceived Arthur, and, bowing to him, they fell into conversation
about the scenery through which the boat was passing on her way to the
open sea. Before very long, indeed, as soon as the vessel began to
rise and fall upon the swell, this talk was interrupted by a voice
from the seat where Miss Terry had