Captivity (Paperback)

Excerpt: ...walked up the street he told her that he was tired to death, that he had not been to bed since the Oriana left Melbourne. "I thought you stayed at an hotel that night," she said. "No, as a matter of fact, my pet, we got run in, all of us. I don't know, now, what we did when we found the boat had gone without us, but we made up our minds to paint the town red. So we got landed in the police's hands for the night and locked up." "Oh Louis " "It was a great game The funny old magistrate next morning was as solemn as a judge. He read us a lecture about upholding the prestige of the Motherland in a new country. Then he made us promise him faithfully not to have another drink as long as we were in the state of Victoria. We promised right enough, and kept it