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 "First tell me about yourself," smiled the young man. "Are you all alone?"

"Yes," said Fen, "except for Mammy—but she's below—an' the crew, of course, but I don't ever see them. Mother an' everybody have gone ashore to see all kinds of wonderful things."

"Do they often do that?" inquired the young man, frowning a little; "go off and leave you? Wouldn't you like to see some of the wonderful things, too?"

Fen smiled rather wistfully.

"But I can't," he explained, "because of my back, you see. That's why we're here, I think, because the doctor said something about 'change of air' making me get stronger."

The young man's face grew very sympathetic.

"Yes, that's all very well," he argued gently; "but it seems too bad, you know, that they see everything, while you have 6