Dunneston, to find you here on board this ship full five days before you intended to sail. What has happened to send you here to sea—are you escaping something, which is going to follow and catch you anyhow?"
"Oh, Mr. Dunneston!" the girl cried, as she recognized then the Englishman behind young Preston. "So you, too, are on board!"
"Certainly, Mr. Preston," she turned back to the American, "I am glad now that I am on board. For, from what you have just said, the foreboding English disposition which so readily forces you to connect yourself with every crime you chance upon, seems to charm you still—in spite of leaving England. Just exactly what, please, was Mr. Dunneston suggesting to you now?"
"Oh, he was merely warning me about the 'wireless,' that was all, Miss Varris," the American reassured. "He was cautioning me against too premature exhilaration at leaving England. The 'wireless' obviously can keep
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