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He was not pressed for time, however, on his homeward journey, as he was more or less his own master while travelling, and could break his journey at Dantzic quite as easily as at Berlin. Neufahrwasser is slowly absorbing the commerce of Dantzic, and none but small vessels go up the river to the city now.
He was bidden to make it convenient to go to Dantzic and to see Captain Cable there. He arrived in Dantzic early in the morning, and did not go to a hotel. He left his luggage at the station and walked down to the Lange Brucke, where the river steamers start for Neufahrwasser. The boats ran every hour, and Cartoner had not long to wait.
And Captain Cable had a habit of going to sea at short notice. Cartoner was not far wrong. For his own steamer passed the Minnie just above Neufahrwasser, where the river is broad and many vessels lie in mid-stream. The Minnie was deeply laden and lay anchored bow and stern, with the rapid tide rustling round her chains. She was ready for sea. Cartoner could see that.
"Look here," he said, bringing out a folded envelope and laying it on the cabin-table between them. "A dead man's wish. Get that to Miss Cahere. There is no message." Cartoner took up the envelope and put it in his pocket. "I shall not see her, but I will see that she gets it," he said. The dawn was in the sky before the Minnie swept out past the pier-head light of Neufahrwasser.
After the lapse of four days these further orders came by the same sure channel, which was independent of the Russian post-offices. The fugitives were to proceed cautiously to Dantzic, to pass through that town at night to the anchorage below Neufahrwasser. Here they would find Captain Cable, in the Minnie, anchored in the stream ready for sea. The instructions were necessarily short.
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