strand and the roar of the were like the same hark to it the ebb tide now and you can hear the and the rolling and the streets and then at last i would look about and there was the old place and no mistake with the statues in the square and st martin s in the fields and the and the and the and i can t tell you what i felt like i felt like crying i believe or dancing or jumping clean over the column i was like a fellow caught up out of hell and flung down into the part of heaven then i spotted for a with a horse a shilling for yourself if you re there in twenty minutes said i to the he went a good pace though of course it was a trifle to the carpet and in nineteen minutes and a half i was at the door what door asked the captain oh a house i know of returned bet it was a public house i cried the clerk � only these were not his words and w y did n t you take the carpet there instead of in a i did n t want to a quiet street said the bad form and besides it was a well and what did you do next inquired the captain oh i went in said the old folks asked the captain that s about it said the other a grass night on the beach well i think you are about the poorest and at a cried the clerk it s like children i can tell you there would be more beer and about my little i would go and have a b and s for luck then i would get a big with fur and take my cane and do the la de da down then i would go to a slap up and have green peas and a bottle of and a chop � oh and i forgot i d ave some w first and green and ot coffee and some of that form of vice in big bottles with a seal � � that s the then i d drop into a theatre and on with some and do the dancing rooms and bars and that and wouldn t go ome till morning till d doth appear and the next d y i d ave water am and fresh butter would n t i just oh my the clerk was interrupted by a fresh attack of well now i tell you what i would do said the captain i would have none of your fancy with the man driving from the but a plain fore and aft hack cab of the highest first of all i would bring up at the market and get a turkey and a pig then i d go to a wine merchant s and get a dozen of champagne and a dozen of some sweet wine rich and and strong something in the port or line the best in the the ebb tide store then i d bear up for a toy store and lay out twenty dollars in toys for the and then to a s and take in cakes and and fancy bread and that e with the in it and then to a news agency and buy all the papers � all the picture ones for the and all the story papers for the old girl about the earl discovering himself to maria and the escape of the lady from the private and then i d tell the fellow to drive home there ought to be some s n up for the suggested they like yes s for the red at that said the captain and those things they pull at and go pop and have poetry inside and then i tell you we d have a day and christmas tree combined great scott but i would like to see the i guess they would light right out of the house when they saw driving up my little � the captain stopped sharply well keep it up said the clerk the damned thing is i don t know if they are n t starving cried the captain they can t be worse off than we are and that s one comfort returned the clerk i defy the devil to make me worse off it seemed as if the devil heard him the light of the moon had been some time cut off and they had talked in darkness now there was heard a night on the beach roar which drew nearer the face of the was seen to and before they had staggered to their feet a burst in rain upon the the rage and volume of that one must have lived in the to conceive a man panted in its assault as he might under a shower bath and the world seemed in night and water they fled groping for their usual shelter � it might be almost called their home � in the old came into its empty chambers and lay down three of humanity on the cold coral floors and presently when the was the others could hear in the darkness the chattering of the clerk s teeth i say you fellows he for god s sake lie up and try to warm me i m if i don t think i die else so the three crept together into one wet mass and lay until day came shivering and off and continually to wretchedness by the of the clerk chapter ii morning on the beach � the three letters x he clouds were all fled the beauty of the day was spread upon and the wall of breaking seas upon the and the palms upon the already trembled in the heat a french man of war was going out that morning homeward bound she lay in the middle 