He had seen young Jack once, and then his fears were so excited that they obtained a complete mastery over his cooler judgment.
He took him for his own apparition.
* * * * *
Joe Basalt and Jack Tiller felt unhappy.
They had long learnt to repent of their slyness in concealing the stowaway on board the "Westward Ho!"
Honest Joe Basalt and rough-and-ready Jack Tiller consulted daily over the dilemma into which they had fallen.
"Hark ye, Jack," said his pal Basalt, "we've bin an' made hasses of ourselves in getting that chap aboard, but our dooty is clear now."
"What's that?"
"To go and make a clean breast of it to the skipper."
"But the cove himself seemed so particular avarse to that."