passenger as justly punished for climbing about where he had no business
to go."

Rollo was greatly interested in this narrative. He thought what a narrow
escape he had had in deciding that he would not attempt to climb up the
shrouds, and he secretly determined that he would be very careful, not
only while he was on board the steamer, but also on all other occasions,
not to violate the proprieties of life by obtruding himself into places
where he ought not to go.

The surgeon now went away, leaving Rollo and Jane on the settee
together.

"I wish," said Rollo, "that I had asked him what he meant by heaving the
log."

"No," said Jane, "you must not ask any questions."

"Yes," replied Rollo, "I may ask _him_ questions. He said that I might
ask any questions that I pleased of him."

"Well," said Jane, "then you must ask him the nest time you see him."

"I will," said Rollo. "And now let us go down into our state room and
find Maria, and get ready to go to dinner."

"Well," said Jane, "only let me go first alone. I want to see if I
cannot find my way to the state room alone."

Rollo acceded to this proposal, and he accordingly remained on the
settee himself while Jane went down. Jane looked up toward him when she
turned to go down the steep flight of stairs which led from the
promenade deck, with a smile upon her countenance, which seemed to say,
"You see I am right so far," and then, descending the steps,--holding on
carefully all the time by the green rope,--she soon disappeared from
view. Rollo waited a proper time, and then followed Jane. He found her
safe upon the couch in her state room, with Maria seated by her side.

In a very few minutes after Rollo came into the state room eight bells
struck, and so they all went out to dinner. At first, Jennie said that
she did not wish to go. She did not wish for any dinner. In fact, Rollo
perceived, in looking at her, that she was beginning to be a little
pale. Maria told her, however, that she had better go and take some
dinner.

"The rule at sea," said Maria, "always is, to go to the table if you
possibly can."

So they all went out into the dining saloon through the long and narrow
passages that have been already described. They were obliged to put
their hands up to the sides of the passage ways, first to one side and
then to the other, to support themselves, on account of the rolling of
the ship, for there now began to be considerable motion. When they
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