"Then you didn't go and drink with him?"

"Why no, of course not. I took him to his berth, and told him to stay there."

"Do you think he will?"

"Yes; until he sobers up."

"Well, I don't like drunken men."

"Neither do I."

"We're agreed on one thing then, aren't we?"

Chester laughed with her. Elder Malby was pacing the deck, awaiting the call for breakfast; but Chester did not join him.

"The man bothered me yesterday," she said, "and again last night. He wished to get acquainted, he claimed."

"You don't know him, then?"