Chapter Five“I hope you will be comfortable, my Lord.”
Lord Castleford looked round the single cabin that he had been allotted.
The Captain had explained with many apologies that it had been impossible to give him two as the ship was so crowded that every available cabin had three or four men in it.
He had given Lord Castleford instead what had been the sitting room of the most expensive and luxurious suite when The Himalaya had been in ordinary passenger service.
It was in fact the size of two or three cabins thrown into one and there was in one corner a large four-poster brass bedstead of the type with which the P & O had furnished their latest Steamship, the fastest and most luxurious vessel afloat.
The mosquito net used for Far Eastern runs was swirled round the top and, supported
