course, he had a mild sort of interest in seeing whether I would finally confirm his conviction that I was Mr. Manling. But that could furnish him no real interest in the chase.
"But now that he knows that Mr. Manling is on board and is again convinced, at least for a while," Preston put in cautiously, "that I am not he, he's revivified most wonderfully. You wouldn't know him. And the captain's not only a Briton like him, but the best sort of an old sport, too. It was better than Thackeray to see them together.
"When the captain told old Dunneston that he had received warning from the police that Mr. Manling had sailed with us, but that they were yet unable to furnish any clue to his identity, except the description which they received at Polporru and had to discard, Dunneston almost fell over him with joy.
"'I say, Captain,' he congratulated him, 'I say, perfect that, what? We know he is on board, and have no clue to his identity?'
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