The steamer “honked” and began to move. He looked at her appealingly and she placed something into the palm of his hand.
“It’s something I forgot to give you,” she said softly.
He opened his hand and saw—a steamboat ticket.
“But——”
“I bought two,” she said. “One for you and one for me; and most of your clothes are in those bags. Didn’t you miss them?”
CHAPTER XXIV
CONCLUSION
It was past midnight, and they were sitting in the stern of the Topeka listening to the chopchop of the water under her flat bottom. Save for an occasional guffaw and curse, evidence of some nocturnal card-party, silence reigned aboard.