"
"But, look here!" cried Hadden, "how do you mean to
manage? You can whisk round in a hansom and no
questions asked; but if you try to come on a quarter-
deck, my boy, you'll get nabbed."
"I'll have to keep back till the last," replied Wicks,
"and take another name."
"But how about clearing? What other name?" asked Tommy,
a little bewildered.
"I don't know yet," returned the captain, with a grin.
"I'll see what the name is on my new certificate, and
that'll be good enough for me. If I can't get one to
buy, though I never heard of such a thing, there's old
Kirkup, he's turned some sort of farmer down Bondi way;
he'll hire me his."
"You seemed to speak as if you had a ship in view,"
said Carthew.
"So I have too," said Captain Wicks, "and a beauty.
Schooner yacht DREAM--got lines you never saw the
beat of, and a witch to go. She passed me once off
Thursday Island, doing two knots to my one and lying a
point and a half better, and the GRACE DARLING was
a ship that I was proud of I took and tore my hair.
The DREAM'S been my dream ever since.
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