"But how did it get there?"
"You know, Master Fritz, it could not have told me, even if I had taken the trouble to inquire."
"Very true, Willis."
"I was determined, however, to find it out some other way, so I steered for a café near the harbor, where the pilots and long-shore captains go to play at dominoes. I was in hopes of picking up some stray waif of information, and, sooth to say, I was not altogether disappointed."
"Another meeting, I'll be bound," said Jack.
"My falling in with the Nelson astonished you, did it not?"
"Rather."
"Then I'll bet my best pipe that this one will surprise you still more. You recollect my comrade, Bill, alias Bob, of the Hoboken?"
"Yes, perfectly."
"Then I met him."