'Moreover, he told me he purposed going to the Ray.'
'To be sure he did.'
'And he never reached the Ray.'
'No, for certain.'
'Then it is obvious he must have been lost between Mersea and the Ray.'
'There is something in what you say, Elijah; there is what we may term argument in it.'
'There was a reason why he should go to the Ray.'
'I suppose there was.'
'He had quarrelled with Glory, and desired to make it up that night.'
'I know there had been a squall.'