and I don't believe you have
neither."

"I don't believe I have, Bostock," said the doctor, smiling.

"Thought not, sir. So what do you say to going and looking up the
stooard's and the cook's quarters and seeing what we can find?"

"Yes, Bostock, the wisest thing we can do, and I must be thinking about
my patient too. I must not let him starve."

CHAPTER SEVEN.

There was not much time for examination before darkness set in, but
enough to prove to the two seekers that there was not the slightest
cause for anxiety respecting provisions; for, without taking into
consideration what the sea and shore might afford them upon being tried,
there was the full run of the ample stores provided for about a hundred
people, and the great tanks of fresh water. In short, as Bostock put
it:

"Why, there's enough for us three to live like fighting cocks for a
whole year, sir, and to have company too. Then there's water ashore, as
we saw plainly enough, and there's sure to be something or another to
eat there, besides cocoanuts, which aren't bad if you drink 'em. Bound
to say there's hysters too, while, as for fish, I know what these waters
are. You've only got to put a bit o' bait on a hook and hold it out,
and the fish are so hungry for it that they'll jump out o' water or rush
ashore to catch it. Why, we're in luck, sir."

"Luck, Bostock?" said the doctor, sadly.

"Yes, sir, luck. It's an awful bad job for the old _Susan_ to be
wrecked; but she's well insured, I've no doubt, and there must be
disasters at sea sometimes."

"And the passengers and crew, my man?" said the doctor, bitterly.

"Saved, every one of 'em, we hope and pray, sir, and as I said afore,
pitying us poor chaps as they think warn't. Beg pardon, sir, you're a
gentleman and a scholar, while I'm only a poor uneddicated sort of a
fellow as never had any time for schooling but I've larnt a deal in my
time, not book larning, but useful stuff."

"Well," said the doctor, smiling, for the old sailor had stopped short;
"why don't you go on, Bostock?"

"Thought I was getting too forrard, sir."

"No, no, go on; what were you about to say just now?"

"Well, sir, only this, that it's best to take things as they come and
not grumble. Here we are, unfortunate, as you may say, but what a lot
worse off we might be. Little while ago, as we thought, there was young
Master Carey dying as fast as he could, and us just waiting to go to the
bottom. Now here'