41 Lure O Gold 1904

"
A Glimpse of the Poetical Pirate
but four of the cabin passengers, and there was no oneeyed
man among them.
At ten o clock the purser went with me into some of
the staterooms, and I had an opportunity of seeing sea
sickness in various stages, but caught no glimpse of the
man for whom I was so eagerly searching.
"They couldn t have taken first-class passage," said
the purser, as we sat in the Doctor s stuffy stateroom.
"
Well, it s
not likely they d travel in the steerage,"
surmised the Doctor, "with all that gold in their pos
session."
"No, it isn t,"
said the purser,
"but
you
can t tell.
Maybe they thought they could put up
with the steer
age a couple of weeks for the sake of keeping
out of
sight as much as possible."
"Their
names wouldn t
appear on the steerage list,"
remarked the Doctor.
For of course they have taken
false ones if they re on board at all, which I m not
so sure of; for this young gentleman caught only a
glimpse
of his man,
and might easily have been mis
taken."
"No," I insisted stoutly.
"I am
sure it was he. I
have fixed his eye in my mind.
There can t be any mis
take.
He s the man, and I m going to find him before
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