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The Argo was lying at Spithead. Taking a wherry he went out to her at once. He found that all was in readiness, and that a small cabin had been assigned to him next to that of Sir Robert Wilson. His trunk was already there, and leaving his small portmanteau in his cabin, he went ashore and took up his quarters at the George.
Then we wandered about at the wind's will, thinking that it might puzzle people, if any one should have stumbled on the right scent. All that fortnight was a long delightful picnic to me. The barge was so like an Oulton wherry that I was at home in her. I knew what to do, it was not like being in the schooner.
We put up at the "George;" and, after ordering dinner, walked down to the harbour, and soon made out the "Vigilant," anchored about a quarter of a mile away. The tide was still flowing a little; so, jumping into a wherry, we were soon alongside.
I built a new wherry, and stuck to the river, and I shifted my lodgings that I mightn't mix any more with those who knew me as a boxer. Your mother was then brought to bed with you, and I hoped for a good deal of happiness, as I thought she would only think of her husband and child; and so she did until you were weaned, and then she went on just as afore.
At seven o'clock in the evening I arrived at Portsmouth; I hastened down, jumped into a wherry, and was on board of the frigate again by eight. It may be imagined that my sudden and unexpected appearance caused no little surprise.
"Oh, after all these years when we had given you up for dead!" "After all these years? Why, Momsey, I left you only two days ago to go to Seattle. There must have been a wreck or something; for I heard a dreadful crash, and then I awakened here with these nice moving picture folk. They were on the same train, I guess." Dr. Wherry made the parents a signal not to tell the secret just yet.
He would obtain a wherry for me, but he considered that the life of a waterman was not suited to a lad like me, and he then said that he was a shipowner, and was about to despatch a brig in a few days to the coast of Norway for timber, and that, if I pleased, he would send me on board her as an apprentice. Also, as he considered that I was already a seaman, he would give me a trifle of pay.
At any rate she was determined not to complain, when Solly had been so very polite. "Isn't this prime?" said Johnny, as they launched out upon the water. The motion was certainly pleasant, and for a few moments Dotty was quite delighted, thinking over and over again, "Mamma won't care; it's nothing but a wherry, and the wind doesn't blow."
Having purchased a few other articles with Farmer Cocks' five-pound note, which Toby Kiddle suggested I should find useful, we chartered a wherry to go to the frigate. Among other things I got two or three pounds of tobacco.
The man-of-war made chase, but a Thames barge might as well have tried to catch a wherry. The pirate was out of sight in no time." "But if this stranger should prove to be a gentleman of the same profession, what shall we do, Charley?" I asked. "Run away if we can, and fight him if he comes up with us," he replied.
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