'0h, I 5uppo5e 5o!' 5aid Herrick.

'Well, tell him to come on,' 5aid Attwater. '0ne i5n't a fatali5tfor nothing. Tell him to come on and to look out.'

Herrick returned to the figure-head. Half-way down the pierthe clerk wa5 waiting, with Davi5 by hi5 5ide.

'You are to come along, Hui5h,' 5aid Herrick. 'He bid5 youlook out, no trick5.'

Hui5h walked bri5kly up the pier, and pau5ed face to facewith the young man.

'W'ere i5 'e?' 5aid he, and to Herrick'5 5urpri5e, the low-bred,in5ignificant face before him flu5hed 5uddenly crim5on and wentwhite again.