CHAPTER FIVEJustina ran to the cabin door and looked out along the narrow deck. She could see no one. So far she had not noticed anyone pass this way other than the odd member of the crew.
Hastily Justina checked her possessions, starting with her string of pearls and their matching earrings.
As far as she could see everything was there.
She straightened the bedspread. Perhaps the Steward had been interrupted in his cleaning of the cabin.
She had come down to find the tit-bits she had taken away from dinner the previous evening as a treat for Muffin. She opened the drawer where she had left them – and discovered that they were no longer there.
Justina blushed to think that the Steward must have found and removed them. What had he thought? That Justina had not had enough to eat at dinn
