41 Lure O Gold 1904

A Heavy Trunk
clined to take the air together. If Trust went up on
deck, Somers stayed below,
and when Somers wanted
to relieve his nose of the steerage stinks, Trust would
remain, as I fancied, on watch.
My silent comings and goings in the poorly lighted
steerage seemed barely to be observed by the two men.
Sometimes Somers, when he caught sight of me, ap
peared a bit suspicious, but Trust was always bland
and affable, greeting me cordially. Being the deeper
rogue of the two, he was, as I saw him, better capable
of dissembling any anxiety
he might
have felt because
of my visits. I came to understand that,
if I were to
gain anything by my vigilance,
I must be more alert
and less conspicuous.
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