Chapter 32—A Vanished Continent The next morning, the 19th of February, I saw the Canadian enter my room. I expected this visit. He looked very disappointed. “Well, sir?” said he. “Well, Ned, fortune was against us yesterday.” “Yes; that Captain must needs stop exactly at the hour we intended leaving his vessel.” “Yes, Ned, he had business at his bankers.” “His bankers!” “Or rather his banking-house; by that I mean the ocean, where his riches are safer than in the chests of the State.” I then related to the Canadian the incidents of the preceding night, hoping to bring him back to the idea of not abandoning the Captain; but my recital had no other result than an energetically expressed regret from Ned that he had not been able to take a walk on the battlefield of Vigo on his own account. “……
Chapter 32—A Vanished Continent The next morning, the 19th of February, I saw the Canadian enter my room. I expected this visit. He looked very disappointed. “Well, sir?” said he. “Well, Ned, fortune was against us yesterday.” “Yes; that Captain must needs stop exactly at the hour we intended leaving his vessel.” “Yes, Ned, he had business at his bankers.” “His bankers!” “Or rather his banking-house; by that I mean the ocean, where his riches are safer than in the chests of the State.” I then related to the Canadian the incidents of the preceding night, hoping to bring him back to the idea of not abandoning the Captain; but my recital had no other result than an energetically expressed regret from Ned that he had not been able to take a walk on the battlefield of Vigo on his own account. “……
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