“C. Q.”; or, In the Wireless House
Now the whole ship was talking of the extraordinary coincidence by which she had stumbled upon the very man who had robbed her husband’s bank! It had made a terrific sensation, particularly when the officers had taken him and locked him up, half fainting, in his state-room. And now there was a guard pacing up and down, in front of his door! And Cosmo was still free to come and go as he chose,—but for how long? Only until the pilot should come aboard with his bundle of papers and the Captain should read all about it, and begin to wonder why on earth he had n’t heard of it before. Then he ’ll know he had Cosmo Graeme on board for she had told him so,—fool that she was! And Cosmo would either have to jump overboard or be thrown into irons! And she was to blame for it! No one else.
Everything was going wrong. There was her necklace—what was she going to do with that? She must decide shortly or she would
certainly have to pay the duty on it. Thirty thousand dollars! She couldn’t pay any such sum,—it would be too ridiculous. Yet after what Fantine had told her about the stringency191
