"Well," said Cleary, rising, "I think we've taken enough of your valuable time and we must be off."
"Wait a moment," said the editor. "Have you explained all that I told you to the captain?"
"Not yet," answered Cleary, "but I'll do it now on the way to his hotel. He is going to leave town to-day, and he may be ordered to sail any day now. I will try to go on the same ship with him."
"Perhaps I can manage it, too," said Jonas, as he shook hands with the two friends, "if I can finish up all these arrangements. I must be on the ground there as soon as I can."
As Sam and Cleary left the room the editor and Jonas settled down to a confidential conversation, and there were smiles upon their lips as they began talking.
[CHAPTER V]
Slowburgh
