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`` Secondly , I should not wish to go back to my lodgings here , after what has occurred ; so I 'll write a few lines to have my trunks forwarded to Montreal , until which time I 'll ask of you to procure me a change of costume , for I can not bear to be seen in this absurd dress by daylight . '' `` To be sure ; whatever you please ! '' said Joe , overjoyed at the projected arrangement . After some further discussion on the subject , I inquired where their luggage was stored , and learned that it lay at the Montreal Steamer Wharf , where it had been deposited the preceding day ; and by a bill of the packets , which Joe produced , I saw that she was to sail that very morning , at eight o'clock . There was then no time to lose ; so I advised my companions to move silently and noiselessly from the house , and to follow me . With an implicit reliance on every direction I uttered , they stole carefully down the stairs and issued into the street , which was now perfectly deserted . Although in total ignorance of the locality , I stepped out confidently ; and first making for the Harbor , as a `` point of departure , '' I at last reached the `` New Wharf , '' as the station of the river steamers was called .