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The story in 7 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A pretty visitor arrives at the Foam

   The story begins at a wharf in Wapping. A young woman stands on the jetty, looking down at the deck of a schooner. She asks a young man for Captain Flower and learns that the captain has gone ashore, dressed with great care. The man is Jack Fraser, the mate. She gives her name as Tyrell, and Fraser wonders why his master, a great admirer of women, has never mentioned her.

   She agrees to wait aboard. She says her late father was a sailor. Fraser praises Flower as one of the finest fellows alive and tells how Flower once jumped overboard after him. She asks whether Fraser would do the same for her. He admits he is not much of a swimmer. Then he swears he would jump in even if he could not swim a stroke, in a gale, with the sea full of sharks.

   Night falls, and they go down to the cabin and trade sea stories. Their laughter greets Flower when he hurries aboard at last. He has waited two hours for her at the Wheelers in Poplar. She says calmly that he never invited her, so she came without an invitation, and that she will come often. A shadow crosses his face.

   Later the captain bursts back alone, breathless and wild eyed, and tells his mate that if anyone asks about the master of this ship, he is as unlike Flower as two people can be. In one evening Jacobs sets up the whole book. The captain is charming, the mate is smitten, and the girl is cleverer than both.

   A plain deck can become a stage when someone clever steps onto it.

2. 2

   A ghost on the wharf and a voice in the pantry

   Later that night the watchman, George, sees a veiled figure on the wharf and runs to wake the crew.

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3. 3

   Three engagements and an uncle with a scheme

   At breakfast the next day Flower confesses, in tones of deep self pity, that he is a victim of his own good nature.

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4. 4

   A bungled theatre trip and a tea party at war

   Flower takes Poppy and a girl named Emma Wheeler to the theatre, and brings Fraser along to keep Emma company.

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5. 5

   Two women in the cabin and a cab ride to Bow

   Fraser meets Flower in the street with bad news.

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6. 6

   The fake drowning and its sour fruit

   Cornered, Flower announces his solution.

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7. 7

   Caught, carried off, and running for his life

   Flower hides in lodgings in Walworth under the name Norton.

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