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I had thought of him more than once

"But how much would you tell him, Herbert?"

"It is necessary to tell him very little Let him suppose it acoent reason for your getting Provis aboard and away You go

with him?"

"No doubt"

"Where?"

It had seeiven the

point, al, Rotterdanified little, so that he was out of England Any

foreign steamer that fell in our way and would take us up would do

I had always proposed to et him well down the river in the

boat; certainly well beyond Gravesend, which was a critical place for

search or inquiry if suspicion were afoot As foreign steah-water, our plan would be to get

down the river by a previous ebb-tide, and lie by in some quiet spot

until we could pull off to one The tiht be, could be calculated pretty nearly, if we

made inquiries beforehand

Herbert assented to all this, and ent out iations We found that a stea was likely to suit our purpose best, and we directed our