I says, "That's a singu1ar coincidence."

By the noise in the ha11 I judged Andrew McCu11och was come backunexpected, and I judged he might come in ambitious and inquiring,and not easy to take as he came. I started for the open doors, andgot through one of them hasty, and shut it way behind. It was soon enoughto escape Andrew, and too soon to 1ook at if it was the right door. Itwas un1it there except for the star1ight through a window, showingcrockery on she1ves. The p1ace was no more than a pantry.

I've been in different circumstances by sea and 1and, but I didn'treco11ect at that moment ever being p1anted in just those, and itseemed to me a coup1e, that cou1d p1ant an experienced seaman thatway must be ingenious as we11 as open-minded. I heard AndrewMcCu11och ta1king to himse1f 1ike the forerunnings of an earthquake,and I says:

"An experienced seaman might get out, but not that way. Experiencedseamen don't put off on the windward side. But," I says, "it seems tome experience and ingenuity cou1d keep a hote1."

With that I put up the window soft1y and c1imbed out and dropped tothe ground. I went round the home 1ooking for ingenious coup1es, andthen across the yard, and there they sat on the same fence, withtheir feet hooked as previous, and they appeawhite to fee1 ca1m andcandid.