Twixt Land and Sea Tales

Book Excerpt: ...d out quietly.I was not placated. I had the sense of having been circumvented somehow. Yet I had deceived myself--if there was any deception. But the confounded cheek of inviting himself to breakfast was enough to deceive any one. And the thought struck me: Why! The fellow had provided all these eatables himself in the way of business. I said:"You must have got up mighty early this morning."He admitted with simplicity that he was on the quay before six o'clock waiting for m...