ou might both be glad of this opportunity."

"What do you say, Humphrey?" asked Jasper, who had now approached us. "I
would like to see the inside of a Spanish ship. If 'tis aught like the
outside it should be well worth an examination."

"A look at the Santa Luisa will repay your trouble, gentlemen," said the
Spaniard with a proud smile. "There is no faster ship for her size on
the high seas."

"I am agreeable," said I. "Our own ship is not yet come, and time begins
to hang heavy."

"Then you shall come on board to-night," said Captain Nunez. "Until six
of the clock I am engaged on shore, but at that hour I will have a boat
awaiting us at the harbor stairs, and you shall go aboard with me,
gentlemen."

So we agreed and parted with him, Jasper full of the matter, and
exclaiming that we should have much to tell the folks at home. I,
however, was beginning to get somewhat impatient with respect to our own
ship, which its owner now believed to have been unexpectedly detained,
and I only regarded the visit to the Santa Luisa as a diversion.

At six o'clock that night, Jasper and I met the Spaniard at the harbor
stairs and went on board his vessel. We found the Santa Luisa to be a
very fine ship, and of much more pretentious appearance as regarded her
fittings than our own English trading vessels. We passed an hour or so
in examining her, and were then pressed by Senor Nunez to enter his
cabin and enjoy his hospitality.

I have no very clear recollection of what followed. I remember that we
ate and drank, that the Spaniard was vastly amusing in his discourse,
and that I began to feel mighty sleepy. After that I must have gone to
sleep.

When I came to my full senses again I was lying in a hammock, and I
could tell from the motion of the ship that we were at sea in a good,
fresh wind. The Spaniard stood by me, regarding me attentively. I
started up and addressed him.

"Senor Nunez! I have been asleep. Where am I? The ship seems to be
moving!"

"The ship is moving, Master Salkeld," he answered, in his smooth, rich
voice. "At this moment she is off the Lincolnshire coast. You have slept
for twelve hours."

CHAPTER V.

PHARAOH NANJULIAN AGAIN.

I do not know to this day how I got out of the hammock, but no sooner
did I hear the Spanish captain utter these words than I made haste to go
on deck and examine the truth of his statement for myself. But before
I could reach the companion I reeled and staggered