----, where
important intelligence awaits him."
"It must manage to wait for me six months," said Norris
lightly enough, but yet conscious of a pang of
curiosity.
CHAPTER XXIII
THE BUDGET OF THE "CURRENCY LASS"
BEFORE noon, on the 26th November, there cleared from
the port of Sydney the schooner CURRENCY LASS. The
owner, Norris Carthew, was on board in the somewhat
unusual position of mate; the master's name purported
to be William Kirkup; the cook was a Hawaiian boy,
Joseph Amalu; and there were two hands before the mast,
Thomas Hadden and Richard Hemstead, the latter chosen
partly because of his humble character, partly because
he had an odd-jobman's handiness with tools. The
CURRENCY LASS was bound for the South Sea Islands, and
first of all for Butaritari in the Gilberts, on a
register; but it was understood about the harbour that
her cruise was more than half a pleasure trip. A
friend of the late Grant Sanderson (of Auchentroon and
Kilclarty) might have recognised in that tall-masted
ship the transformed and rechristened DREAM; and
the Lloyd's surveyor, had the services of such a one
been called in requisition, must have found abundant
subject of remark.
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