“It is not an uncommon one among eastern ladies,” said the soldier. “Anyhow,” he added, “I should always know Shireen again if I happened to lose her, and she returned even ten years after.”
Somehow, my children, those words, simple though they were, had an ominous ring in them, and I thought of them long, long after, in far less happy times.
Well, Warlock, after I had been a few days at sea, I determined to get up to the ropes. I must see everything there was to be seen, for as far as I had yet noticed, there was nothing to be very greatly afraid of.
But I resolved to make my first excursion round the ship by night.
So soon after sunset I went quietly upstairs, and immediately found myself under the stars on deck.
Chapter Eleven.
Ship’s Cat on Board the “Venom.”
As soon as I got on deck I began to glance eagerly about me.