The merchant looked thoughtful.
“I am sorry for that,” he said. “Your predecessor—the man whose place you are taking—is not yet well.”
“I am sorry if I inconvenience you, Mr. Saunders.”
“You are specially anxious to return on the Osprey?”
“If I don’t, I know of no other way of getting home.”
“You can get home quicker by way of London and Liverpool.”
“But that would cost considerable money.”
“That is true. Of course, if I detain you here I shall undertake to send you home free of expense to yourself. Perhaps, however, that may not be a matter of so much importance to you.”
Guy looked puzzled.
“You would travel by steamer to Liverpool, and from there to New York or Boston, also by steamer.”