“I don’t know of any other way to get out. The Russians hold the railroad from end to end.”
“No ship sail from Port Arthur—mean no Japanese ship—big guns from fort smash bang!”
“I know that as well as you do.”
“Master Pennington want to go with Jiru Siko?”
“Where to?”
“Nagasaki.”
“How are you going to get to Nagasaki?”
“Got big sailboat—sail in two, three days—when weather is fine.”
“Not from here?”
“No! no! sailboat some miles from here. Go away from Port Arthur in dark—walk or ride in dark—come where boat is, wait for good time go away. Master Pennington come, we do best we can for him.”