"Oh how glad I am that part of the trip is over, now we've crossed from England to Antwerp without being wrecked " "You certainly did seem to have a bad time of it, Tubby, in the wash of the Channel " "Bad time did you say, Rob? It was a great deal worse than anything we struck on the voyage between New York and Liverpool, let me tell you." "But now we want to forget all our troubles of the past, Tubby." "I know what you mean by that, Merritt; it's just the same as telling me the worst is yet to come."