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And chuck it off first.

Hello, Master Samuel. Blaine Truitt from the shop.

Well, it's my dinner hour.

Go get in the way here, will you?

I met the mate at the shipping office.

Aye, he's signing on crew.

Now, let's have that other crate here look lively.

He told me to see you.

Now, look, if it's more old yarns about the sea you want to hear, I'm a bit

busy. Did you know you're going to be a seaman short on this voyage?

Come on, get on with it. We're sailing tomorrow, not next Christmas.

Can I sail with you?

Have that place not on your crew.

I want to go to sea.

Oh, I enjoy that.

They just can't brew a cup of tea in the United States of America.

I'll have another.

So then, after all that, they didn't get married.

Precisely. James is convinced you'll still marry him, but I'm not so sure.

She's still staying up there at the house? For Charlotte's sake.

They've got a housekeeper, but that won't stop tongues from wagging.

I thought he'd had some consideration for a good name. Still, that's James all

over, isn't it?

Well, and where's Samuel?

I thought after three months he might have been here to greet me. Oh, Robert,

weren't to know you'd arrive a day early. The Prince Edward wasn't due to

until tomorrow.

Doesn't he have his dinner with you?

No, he takes sandwiches down on the quay.

The fresh air does him good.

He wants me to be a shopkeeper.

Honest enough trade, don't you think, Captain Baines?

Yes, sir.

And seeing as the shop is likely to be the lad someday... I don't want it. I

want to go to sea.

You've not ever even been in a rowboat.

It's only because my mother was afraid I'd get my feet wet.

So what do you suppose you think about this?

I'm sure if you put it to her, sir, you could make her understand.

Me?

It's her after I've gone.

Mr. O 'Neill is sailing to South America himself.

Oh, are you? I didn't know.

So if anyone tells your mother, it'll have to be you.

Does that mean you'll have me then, sir?

If the father consents, I'll think about it.

But my father's not here.

The Prince Edward's not back till tomorrow night. And if we're sailing in

morning... We're sailing the day after now. As for the Prince Edward, he docked

at noon.

Say, father will be at home. Go and talk to him about it.

You know he'd not agree.

And so do you.

Now, rule along, will you?

I thought you'd be on my side at least, Uncle James.

Look, your father will be waiting and he'll have the hide off your back for

playing around down here when you should be on your stool in the office. Very

well.

I'll see if Aunt Elizabeth will give me a berth. How would you like that?

The Fraser line.

Must say he shows some spirit.

Not enough to show to his father, though.

Well, it's understandable when you think what Mr. Robert hopes from the boy.

And he turns out to be more your nephew than his son.

Poor Robert.

Macaulay? What do you mean Macaulay's gone? Gone back to Australia, I believe.

He and Fogarty had a dreadful quarrel. But what about all the money that I

borrowed in order to expand the store? All bought up by Fogarty, and that's the

man we're in debt to now.

Oh, and another thing. Your voting rights in the O 'Neill line shares.

Yes, yes. I mean, those all go to Fogarty too. Oh, no.

Somehow James managed to acquire them.

go away for ten weeks and he doesn't do a thing like that behind my back.

Ah, father.

I'm sorry I wasn't at the key to greet you.

Did you have a good voyage? I did.

You're very late, love. Your father's been here for the past hour.

I got delayed.

Ah. Well, have you seen the time? It's twenty past one.

I shall have to get Mr. Fringles to dock you an hour's wages.

Oh, father.

I can't have it said that you're playing ducks and drapes with the company. I

mean, just because you are my son.

Oh, dear, he's lost a button.

And how about this jacket?

Oh, that too?

Didn't you tell me when his buttons were missing?

Do you know where he's going, Lettie? I didn't even know he was until the other

day. You know, I'm sure I've seen the button for that jacket somewhere.

Your work basket.

I don't think it'll be in there.

It's where it should be.

Yes, but somehow things never are where they should be.

I certainly wouldn't expect to find a letter in here.

There you are, you see.

Well, at least I can put that in its proper place.

Now, just see if that button's upstairs.

I'll tell you this.

In another 50 years, the United States of America will be second only to Great

Britain in commerce and industry.

Do you know what I saw in Philadelphia?

I saw a store with 15 different departments and all the money taken by a

clerk by means of an overhead railway.

A railway? In a shop?

Well, you know, wires running across the ceiling.

and a little brass container, no bigger than that, so that each shop girl could

send the customer's money to the accounts clerk and get the change back

just by pulling a handle.

Now, isn't that ingenious? I mean, what do you say to that?

Yes, Father, very interesting.

Yes. Yes, well, I mean, if I could get hold of a store of that size... But

there be any demand for a store of that size in Liverpool?

Of course, because in America they create demand by advertising.

Advertising is the most important part of merchandising.

Oh, lad, I wish you'd been there with me.

In America? Yes, I'd love to have been.

Well, then pay some attention to someone who has been there.

I mean, you will reap the harvest that I am trying to sow for you.

You haven't said a word all evening. Well, Robert, you haven't given anybody

much of a chance to say anything. Yes, but I expect him to do more than just

there like a dummy.

Where's the money to come from?

There you are, you see.

Man, a few words he may be, but what he does say makes sense, and that's what

you need in business.

Well, so is the bank.

And if not, Mr. Fogarty, well, we'd even try Uncle James.

Hey, why not?

You'd borrow money from James, the man who took our house. Oh, not borrowed.

I'd persuade James to buy my holdings in the unique in line. You'd try that.

Well, I will try again.

What do you think, Sammy?

Look at him!

It's your inheritance, you stupid lad!

Please, Robert, it's late.

It's time you were in bed, love.

I'm glad you had such a successful trip, Father.

I look forward to hearing more about it.

Good night.

I'll get you some breakfast.

Mrs. Gibson can do that.

Oh, there's no trouble.

Luke, why do we have a servant?

I wish I knew.

Goodness only knows, Charlotte and I could manage.

Well, I'll not have years of skivvy.

Mrs. Gibson makes me feel so uncomfortable.

Why does she do that?

Well, I'm not a proper governess, you know that.

I hate having to keep up a position.

Is that why you wouldn't marry me? Because you had a position to keep up.

The injured innocent doesn't suit you, James, and you know perfectly well

not the reason. Now, you read your paper, and I'll ask Mrs. Gibson to get

some breakfast. You tell her, don't ask her.

Very well.

There you are.

I've even known the bell for you.

Were you at the shipping club last night?

I have a lot of people to see before I go tomorrow.

Will you be out again tonight?

Would you mind if I was?

Charlotte would be sorry.

But not you.

Well, of course I would.

You're going away for goodness knows how long.

I've been offered some tickets for Tudor's musical tonight. Oh, Charlotte

love that.

I'm not taking Charlotte to the musical.

Well, the Tudors have knocked down Lowry.

You won't be amongst the rabble. Besides, she's a grown woman now. You're

enough to understand what I feel about you.

To know that I'm a lot like... Whatever you feel about me is not so important as

what you feel for her.

Luke, I wanted you to be my wife.

Yes, sir.

What? Oh, Mrs.

Gibson, if it's not too much trouble, would you get the master some breakfast?

Aye, and even if it is too much trouble?

Mr. Robert O 'Neill is here. He wants to know if you're at home.

Aye, show him in.

No, wait. Mrs. Gibson, would you give Mr. O 'Neill my compliments and say

see him in just a minute?

Yes, Miss Gaunt.

James, it's not because I don't love you that I didn't marry you, and I thought

I'd made that clear.

You say you don't want me here at the Skibby, but if I married you, do you

realise that you're going to the other side of the world tomorrow and you

haven't even told me why?

And you've taken to reading every inch of the Times this week, when before you

only used to look at the shipping news. Now, what do you hope to read there?

Perhaps if you were my wife, I'd tell you.

I wonder.

I'll marry you when I'm ready, and that's when I've got the power to leave

James, if it's not convenient... Come in, come in, Robert.

Morning, Lettie.

I'll not keep you long. Good morning, Mr O 'Neill. Did you have a fruitful visit

to America?

Oh, an experience not to be missed. Good.

Well, I'll leave you two men alone to talk business.

Oh, James.

I've come back with such ideas.

I thought I could make it into the finest store in the north of England.

Well, you're remarkably friendly.

Money, is it? No.

I have not come here to borrow a penny.

No? No.

Listen.

I know how keen you are to have as much control over your affairs as I am over

mine.

So, if you can see your way to buying my shares if they're needed, my Lord,

well, we need not depend upon each other anymore.

And I thought you didn't want money.

I said I didn't want to borrow any money.

Well, as I control the voting rights over those shares, I don't see why I

pay out our cash.

Because I still own the shares themselves.

And I know you, James.

You like to own everything like stock and barrel.

Well, happen I'm the same.

I mean, we could each go our own way.

Well, I can neither buy nor lend, because I haven't got the cash.

However, if you'd like to hang on until I come back, I might be able to help you

then.

Don't ask me how. I shan't tell you.

Come and join me for some breakfast.

Back to the inn.

James.

Bill Hoskins.

Get that drunken sot below.

Is that the kindly face and gentle voice of me old friend?

Brute Joe.

Now put him below.

And don't let me see him again until he's sober.

We sail in ten minutes.

Your Aunt Sarah doesn't get to hear that I took you to a music hall. Can we go

again? No, you cannot.

While you're away?

Especially not while I'm away.

Charlotte, be a good girl. Run up on deck and see if I've dropped my gloves.

let's see. Well, it's bad enough your father going to the yard in time. You

a good pair of gloves going as well.

Go and tell Captain Burns I want to get ready to sail. I don't want to miss the

time.

James, I won't have you going away bearing a grudge.

I don't.

If you think I cried off marrying you because I didn't love you, then you're

just plain dense.

Oh, don't look this up. I'm wet and faulty.

You hardly laugh at all, I don't think, last night.

Well, you certainly enjoyed yourself.

You silly man.

Don't you realise the feelings I'm trying to hide?

Won't you just look at them? Why not show Mr. Cleckley? He's the engineer.

He told me to show it to you.

Mr. Dunwoody wants to see you, Daniel. No, I'm just coming.

Some work I've been doing on triple expansion engines.

On what?

Well, Mr. Cleftley thinks perhaps we could develop it.

Plenty of people are working in that field.

Qualified engineers.

All I need is a small workshop. Now, Fraser could provide that, surely.

No wonder your last school report was so unsatisfactory, if this is how you've

been wasting your time.

Wasting my time?

My father wouldn't have said that.

Well, he was an engineer, wasn't he?

This is really his work.

I found some notebooks of his. He was looking into triple expansion engines

himself years ago, but then there wasn't the steel you need.

Look, I know others... The work your father did in that line came to nothing.

He had his head in the clouds.

You never believed in him, did you? Any more than you believe in me.

Aunt Bain?

But you'll be arrested. We'll both be arrested. That's madness.

In another revolution out there I've been to. Now, I've been studying the

every day for confirmation.

But we're bound for Montevideo's.

And that's where we're here if there's any truth in it.

If my informant is right, we call on Port Baines on the way home.

I might have guessed you'd never take that business lying down.

Confiscation of all my property. I looked out of a colonel.

I'll not turn down a chance to get back what's my own.

Excuse me, sir.

I'm excited to serve you, sir. Have a stowaway on board.

A stowaway?

On my ship?

As your nephew, sir. Master Samuel O 'Neill.

His father had that big shop.

What's he doing here?

They need him.

Where did they find you?

In the bilges?

Yes, sir.

Smells like it.

So, when did you come aboard?

Last night, sir.

Told your father?

No, sir.

Not even a note?

No, sir. I was afraid they'd find it before we sailed.

We've been at sea 12 hours, boy. They'll be sick with worry by now.

We can tack up the channel and put him off at Parliament. Well, against an east

wind, I'm not prolonging this journey for the sake of a stowaway.

Then you'll keep me, sir? No, you're going aboard the first ship that comes

within hailing distance.

Why, sir?

I'll work hard, I'll do anything.

Look, if you haven't even got the courage to tell your father, how do you

that you're going to find him? No, become a sailor.

You could try, sir.

And if you're really going to send me home on the first ship we pass, then let

me start learning now in the little time I've got.

Right, then. Go harder, take him to the boatswain, fit him out from the slop

chest and put him to work.

Thank you, sir.

Oh, she won't thank me.

Have you forgotten who the bosun is, sir? So long as he knocks this nonsense

of it.

George will do more than that.

I want him treated so rough that every time he thinks of the sea he'll have

nightmares.

Future's all mapped out. Hello?

I want him whimpering for Sarah's vibrance.

I've been to the police.

The police?

Well, accidents happen.

He hasn't been seen all day.

What about William?

William? Did you ask William?

Well, Elizabeth and Fogarty, yes.

William and Samuel are close friends.

Where do you think you're going? Come in. You're not going round to

now, are you, Johnny Justler? It's gone midnight.

If anybody knows where Samuel is, William does.

Look, he would have said, wouldn't he? He would have spoken up.

He knows he's missing.

There's nothing we can do until the morning.

What can we do then?

Wait, I said.

I want this deck so white it'll strike me blind.

Look behind you.

Somebody's walked on it.

Soon as I've done one, bet somebody... Go on, get on with it.

Mr. O 'Neill will be on deck soon.

We don't want him falling about in a dirty, slippy deck, do we?

Master O 'Neill.

It's pointless whitening a deck.

On your feet.

I said on your feet!

Pointless.

Getting some of the fat off you.

So you can do some real work. Up here.

You've come to, have you?

Jump!

Jump!

Jump!

Jump!

How long we been at sea?

Well, that's Tuesday.

Oh.

Drew George has broken, eh?

That's right.

Well, what could it win then?

Usually chasing me by now. All the way.

He's got someone else to chase.

Jump!

Jump!

Jump!

Jump!

Jump! Jump!

I don't know for sure, but I think he's gone to sea.

He's been wanting to for months. Doesn't Sarah know?

Of course not.

They don't understand Samuel any more than my mother understands me.

Hello, William.

Hello. Yes,

she's been popping in every few seconds.

I suppose she thinks I ought to have a chaperone. I'm your cousin, Charlotte.

It's quite proper.

You got there, William.

It's my engineering work. I wanted to show it to Charlotte.

Well, no one else takes any interest.

William's going to invent an engine that drives steamships faster than anything

else. No, not faster, just more economically.

On a single -cylinder engine, most of the thing goes to waste.

But if you can use the exhaust to drive another cylinder, and then the outlets

thing from that to drive a third, well, you save on coal, and that saves money.

Apart from that, there's the extra space to carry cargo.

Did you do all this yourself?

Well, my father started it. I've just brought it up to date.

All I need now is a workshop, but Mr. Fogarty won't even look at it.

This is a need in us, Cornman. She wants to know if Master William is here.

Sure is.

I'll say her for me.

Good night, dear Sarah. Elizabeth said that William was here, and I thought he

might know what had happened to Samuel.

Samuel? He's disappeared, and you didn't even think it worth mentioning? Sarah,

now calm yourself, Charlotte. Go and make a cup of tea. There's a good girl.

I'll never see him again. I'm convinced of it.

Now, what's this, Droughton?

That master of Eden.

Your nephew.

In the folk, so?

He'll never catch him. Not in here with the scarf.

How do I... Oh, you just claim it.

Here. You know what he really ought to have to sleep in, don't you?

A backside kick.

Oh, yes. Well, that's the sailor's name for it, see? I mean, his real name's a

double -sided shuttle board.

Now, you nip and nop with Captain Baines and ask him for a double -sided shuttle

board. Nice and polite, like.

Here, give you one.

What ship is he on?

Truly, I don't know that.

Couldn't you inquire at the shipping office? I mean, if he has signed on...

they'd have told Uncle Robert if he tried to sign on.

Where did he sign on, then?

He doesn't want to be a shopkeeper.

Business doesn't appeal to him.

I can understand.

Excuse me, I must go home.

Sarah, I'm sure you'll get news soon.

I suspected for months that he wasn't interested in the business.

Tried to keep it from Robert.

From myself, even.

But some things are as plain as a pipe staff. Only Robert won't see them.

Both. Do you know what a double -sided thingamabob is?

A practical joke, isn't it?

What did you hope it was, boy?

Something to sleep in.

Who sent you to us?

That big fella, Hoskins.

Did he say what the seamen call it?

Backside kick.

One of them.

Why didn't you say?

There's one right behind you.

He, uh, requested a backside kick, sir.

Making you into a seaman, are they?

Trying to whiten a ship's deck with a stone.

Running fool's errand for the Pope, so he's making me into a seaman. All right,

then you want nothing to do with it. The sooner we get you home, the better,

then, eh?

I didn't say that. Get up on the yard, Arm. First ship that you see sailing

home. Call out.

I'll do my best to get you onto it.

That's not fair.

Get along.

There's a strong wind getting up, sir.

I'm aware of the weather, Captain Baines, but if the lad hasn't got the

to go along, if he thinks he only has to stow away to be a seaman...

He's never been up there before, to my knowledge, sir. If he did fall... See

that he stays there, Bolton.

Until the master orders him down.

And that'll be when I say so, Captain Baines.

...of age.

It's going to be Oneidon and son.

He knows that. Everybody knows it. That's why I'm made to look so... Well,

certainly hasn't joined any Fraser steamer. Only one has left in the last

days. He's not on now.

You are sure?

They called a family this morning. I telegraphed.

Then what other ships have left?

Just the Charlotte ropes.

Time he came down, sir.

He'll die of exposure up here.

If he wants to be a seaman, he'll have to get used to the plane.

Any ship?

No, sir.

Homeward bound on the starboard side?

No, sir.

I did.

An hour ago.

A seaman who can't even be relied upon to keep a lookout.

I must have had something in my eye at the time, sir. Oh, like Nelson.

Sir, if you don't think the comparison too completed.

Yeah.

Right,

we'll be calling in on Lincoln.

Uncle James! At the telegraph, your father.

It has to be told, lad, you know that.

Well, as long as I don't have to go home.

Don't want to, yet.

I told you, sir.

Well, what can happen between here and Lisbon to make you change your mind?

I hope it does, for your sake.

All right, Baines, give him some food. See that he gets some sleep.

Aye, aye, sir.

If you're looking for that letter you were going to post the other day, it's

where you left it.

Not that you'd know where that is. Here.

Thank you.

News about Samuel, but it came out of my head. I'll post it myself if you like.

I'm going out in a minute. No, it's not what you think it is, Charlotte. I'm

sure I don't know what you mean.

Don't you play the matter with me, young lady.

And don't you talk to me as if I'm still a child. I will talk to you just as I

please. The child looks like you're taking that tone in his house. Oh, stop

And you're still not too old for me to slap, Charlotte.

There, read it for yourself.

It's got nothing to do with the position he offered me as a governess.

I only wish it were that simple.

Now, that's my reply to a letter he sent me the other day, the one you found in

my work basket.

He's given you money?

500 pounds.

Intended as a marriage settlement.

Well, when I told him I wasn't getting married after all, he insists the money

is for me anyway.

Held in a Liverpool bank for me to draw on whenever I please.

So you're telling him to take it back?

Well, of course I am. Well, what if he doesn't?

Well, then, I suppose the money will stay there, gathering interest in my

forever and ever.

Why did he give it in the first place? Marriage settlement? Is that like a

dowry?

Quite the reverse.

It was to give me financial independence, he says.

So that even after I marry him, your father knows I won't have to rely on him

for protection.

Why shouldn't you rely on him? Do you have to be so proud?

Yes, I do, Charlotte.

Because it's a proud man I love.

Your mother would have understood that.

From what I've heard about her, she also felt the need to show she was an equal.

Why not accept the money then?

Oh, I couldn't do that.

If that's all you need to give her the courage to marry father, why not?

What, accept him? What amount to a small fortune from someone who is after all

just a stranger?

What would your father think?

Does it matter what he thinks?

He's only your employer.

What are you two doing?

Playing cat's cradle?

Look over there.

Are you going to be shamed by a young boy just out of an office?

Dinner's ready, Bowson. No one has grubbed yet.

Come on, Eden, come here.

Come on, lad, jump to it.

That sheet on the four -yard power drift.

I want it made fast.

And you back on deck before I count to 20.

Go on.

One.

Eight, nine, ten,

eleven, twelve, thirteen,

fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,

seventeen, eighteen,

19. Go away and get some food inside if I look at the charts.

Let us see you, Hoskins.

I want you to go aloft.

Make sure the boy's in a proper semen -like job.

Go on.

One.

You find your sea legs yet, Sam?

Twenty -eight.

And you didn't even have to tie it.

A little breath, eh?

You can pass it.

I'm hoping you draw your discharge certificate.

The master doesn't find it necessary to write, to climb, to report.

Bolton's blue -eyed boy, eh? He's nothing, no. Now, what?

You do things slow and boredom, or you set a rate that just makes trouble for

all. Now, do you understand?

It's my chest you've got your backside on.

That's not yours either.

I haven't got one.

Well, stand.

Who said you can breathe, eh?

Air's foul enough down here as it is without the owner's nephew gobbling up

he can of it.

I have to breathe.

Do you?

He's taken up the deck now, Bill.

Nowhere to tread except on him. Pretend he's not there.

Oh, showing your strength, eh?

After 17 years living on the fat of the lamb with a gentry, you've sunk to

spear.

Tough little blighter, isn't he?

Maybe if I'd had him to go... Not in the face!

Don't mark him. He's the only nephew.

No!

And you, O 'Hara.

We've all been through it.

Have they?

Of course.

Good. I'll think of that.

Why do you think they took it out on you?

You do it slow on deck, the Bolson chases you.

You do it fast and they have you.

I'd rather be at home.

I wouldn't mind.

Well, with any luck.

In Lisbon, soon after dawn.

Give you enough time to get yourself a berth on the Princess Alexandra.

But I've no money.

Oh, well. Our Lisbon agent will see to that.

Your father can pay me back later.

All you said you'd do was telegraph.

Aye. This is the message.

Samuel stowed away, returning him our next Fraser steamer, ex -Lisbon.

No, sir. Now, look.

You said it.

But Uncle James... You have two alternatives.

I think you send this as soon as we tie up. That gives you enough time to get on

that steamer. Or you send it after, she says.

Oh, if you do decide to let her go, come back on board with us.

All the more fool you.

We don't stop now until South America.

He's a steamer. Aye, on her wing.

With that lad on board or not, I wonder. If he's any stout, he'd not be the

first clerk to run away to C .O .R. When you think of his prospects at home, you

think he's got none as a seaman?

No one has prospects as a seaman.

Not even James and Nadine's nephew?

Send that cable, sir.

Returning next, Fraser Steamer, ex -Lisbon.

Which doesn't leave for another six weeks.

Captain Baines, master of the ship.

Perhaps in future you'll see to it that my nephew is taught proper siege.

expect to find you here.

Well, I'm going to keep passing. I thought I'd call.

Is Mrs. Gibson about? It's her day off.

Oh, yes.

William, I've got an old kitchen range in the stables outside.

I want to put it out for the scrap merchant, I wonder. Would you give me a

to shift it? Well, he's come to see me, not to work. Well, it won't take long,

if you'll be so kind, William. Charlotte, why don't you put the kettle

we can all have a nice cosy cup of tea by the farm. Yes.

He goes there nearly every day.

She's his cousin.

She's not just his cousin. She's quite a pre -possessing young woman now.

You think that William and Charlotte... Well, I think you should find him more

employment in the yard, doesn't it? William's only interested in his

fancies. Well, then show him more encouragement so he won't go elsewhere

consolation. William has to take over the company in four years' time.

We don't want to encourage him to go the way of Albert, do we?

You know, if you were to tell him who his father really was... Why should I?

The sea is in my blood. It should be in his.

The sea, not engines. The boy should be told. No. Why not?

He has a right to know his true heritage.

And I have a right to hear my son call me father.

But have I no rights?

If he were to be told the truth, what would that make me in his eyes? He's

nearly a man.

He'd understand.

Oh, yes.

The way other grown men understand. The way Albert understood.

Albert was a fool.

Elizabeth, I've travelled halfway across the world. Is he your son?

No, Daniel. Spare me the penny romance.

You came here when you knew Emma was dying and you thought you could gain

control of Fraser. I had no idea she was dying until I arrived in Liverpool.

Honesty between us could heal many wounds.

There you are, Master William.

Exactly to your specification.

Thank you. And in noise, set to steel.

Luckily, you didn't want any more of it. It's hard to come by.

You're keeping a record of all I owe you, aren't you?

Clark's got it all chalked up.

Oh, William.

Oh, hello, Robert.

What a surprise of you coming in, dear.

I was on my way to call on you.

Let me know if it needs any modification.

Yes, yes, thank you.

Well, your aunt and I would like it very much if you could take tea with us.

Me, sir?

Why?

Well, we thought that you and Samuel, being of an age like...

Well, he might have confided in you as a friend in a way that for some reason or

other he wouldn't with us.

Well, I'd like to very much. Thank you, Uncle. Good. But I'm rather busy at the

moment. Oh.

Besides, I'm sure there's nothing I can tell you about, Sam. You don't really

know yourself.

I see.

Well, what are you doing in the stores, William? Just making some purchases.

Good morning, Robert.

Good morning, Daniel.

Just a minute, William.

What's that you've got there?

Nothing you'd understand, Mr. Fogarty.

You know where we'll be by then

pleasure. Would you like some chocolate or tea? I could drink for Mrs. Gibson. I

understand. William is here.

Yes, he comes here most days. We've grown very fond of him. Charlotte too?

Yes, I'm afraid so, especially Charlotte.

Lettie, in James's absence, you have responsibilities that extend beyond the

mere tutorial.

Is William with Charlotte now? Yes, I think he is, but I don't think he'd want

to be disturbed.

Indeed. Shall I go and see?

I think under the circumstances you had better.

Oh, hello, Auntie Elizabeth.

Charlotte. Have you been with William? Yes.

Come along, Elizabeth.

Let me show you the true object of your son's affection.

We won't have to go in, sir. Now that we've caught the theme, we'll be all

for Montevideo if we can get enough wind to send us there.

There's my old house on the headland.

I wonder who's living in her now.

Colonel Vager, or his successor.

For all you know, Mr. Eden might be just as unfriendly. No, with so little wind,

we'll not be far past the harbour mouth the nightfall.

I'm going to get started.

We'll tack back all over the boat.

The servants up in the house, they'll know what happened.

I think they'll still be friendly.

Ship on the starboard bow, sir.

Hard for talk.

Coming straight at us.

Well, you won't have to go ashore now, sir, to see if you're welcome.

We'll know as soon as that reaches us.

Passage. Me.

It's not going to be Colonel Baker on that tug.

and no one else he'd like didn't know your face, so we mustn't tell him your

real name.

Well, you could be held by them too, you know.

There's times it'll be up to you to get me out of jail.

Excuse me, sir.

They're coming alongside now. They want to come on board, sir. Right you are.

My information is right.

The colonel really has been overthrown. No, we can't risk it, sir. Then what

shall we say your name is? We'd better tell the same story.

Mr. Grant.

Where are you bound?

Montevideo.

You are off course.

It's flowing a gale out there.

We want to anchor till it mutteries.

Is Mr. O 'Neill on board?

Why should he be?

The president would like to have received him since you are in our

Who is president now?

Now?

We understood there'd been some changes lately. The changes you mentioned were

very short -lived.

Is that why you are sailing so close to our shores?

To find out?

Well, who heads your government?

Colonel Vega is both.

Prime Minister and President.

Colonel Vega, President?

And in the absence of Mr. O 'Neill, he would very much like to see you.

Captain Baines?

James O 'Neill, I believe.

What makes you think that?

Colonel Baker has given a very vivid description of you, sir.

Nothing stupid now.

If I'm not back in 12 hours, you weigh anchor.

Sail on to Montevideo.

James gets hold of both of you. Uncle James. When Samuel runs away to see to

work for him, can you start to build him a steam engine?

I'm not building it for him, sir. Anyway, you didn't offer me anywhere.

Well, I am now.

Come in.

You can have a workshop and all the facilities you need at Fraser's.

You sent for me, Mr Fogarty? Yes.

All those machine parts you've been making in company time for my... William

here. I want them collected from James and Eden's stables and taken to

where they belong.

You have no right to do that, Mr Fogarty. They don't belong to Fraser's.

belong to me. You are Fraser's.

In a few years, the company will be yours under your grandfather's will.

And if by then we can be building steamships with triple expansion

We?

I speak as a shareholder in a company that's invested a good deal of money in

your work and expects to see some return for it. The company's invested nothing.

Didn't I ask you to keep an exact record of everything I owe?

I'll fill this engine on my own. It's for me to decide what to do with it, not

any company.

It's the same with Samuel, sir. We just want to make our own way in the world,

as you did once, and Uncle James and Uncle Robert. But expecting us to

you until you can.

How much does he owe the company already, Clickley?

Up to yesterday, it came to about...

200 pounds.

200 pounds?

Where are you going to get that if not from Fraser's? But, sir, today he owes

nothing. All the outstanding bills have been paid this afternoon in cash.

So you kept Sir Charles Helsby's money? Well, you thought it was all right, too.

But I never dreamed you'd invest in William's engine.

You're simply paying for all the material.

I mean, it may not come to anything, but if it does, Charlotte... Oh, Papa will

be pleased.

Your papa will have nothing to do with it.

I'm not investing in William for your father's sake. For whom, then? For

William. But he can run his own life.

Oh, and possibly for myself.

When your father comes home and finds I've got a triple expansion engine in

old stable, and that it might turn out to be profitable one day, well, he

wouldn't keep me waiting at the church after that now, would he?

So, having taken my bearings from these two landmarks here and found out where

they cross, then that must be my position.

Captain Baines, you haven't been listening.

Twelve hours, you said?

There's ten minutes to go.

He's not coming.

They've covered him.

Shall I go and have another look? Yeah, you go.

Mr. O 'Neill, you come aboard mighty quiet.

Master Samuel, tell the bosun to open.

Aye, aye, sir.

What the devil happened?

Well, now.

We had quite an interesting talk.

Mr. Dean, if you're planning to keep me on tenterhooks, I think we should break

out a bottle.

That's a step in the right direction. Good news, isn't it? Very good news.

It gave me great satisfaction to learn that since the Aeneid and Company lost

all its assets,

No British shipper has dared use this port again.

You can see after what happened to us.

It's no wonder that Colonel Vega's government got into difficulties.

Anyway, he wants us to come back.

The devil he does.

All right.

In the hope that if we of all people use this port, all the others will follow

suit. Why should we? We don't need to trade?

Or is he giving everything back?

Oh, no.

The one thing that's keeping him in power now is the fact that he kicked out

the foreigners.

That's why he doesn't want anybody to know what it is that he's paying us

Huh?

Financial compensation.

Cash.

How much?

Well, I think I drove quite a hard bargain, but we'll settle that when we

in here again on the way home.

All right, then.

Let's sail.

I can't wait to deliver.

How can he reimburse the company for what you lost without anyone knowing?

Reimburse the company? Now that's the point.

Just you.

So your luck's turned again, Mr. Leden?

No storm lasts forever.

You should know that, Ben.

There's more drama to come. We're off to Jersey next for Bergerac.