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`` He is with von Schalckenberg , '' answered the colonel . `` When we met last night at the Migrants ' , to make our final arrangements for to-day , we came to the conclusion that for the professor to go alone in search of the _ Flying Fish _ would entail upon him a great deal of unnecessary trouble and labour -- although von Schalckenberg himself would not admit it -- and therefore Mildmay determined to accompany him . So they arranged to meet at Waterloo this morning , and to run down to Portsmouth by the eleven fifteen , which is a fast train , you know ; and I have no doubt that they are at this moment engaged in getting the bearings of the _ Flying Fish _ , in readiness to descend to her as soon as the darkness has set in sufficiently to conceal their movements from too curious eyes . And if the staunch old craft is in the perfect condition that von Schalckenberg anticipates , we shall probably have them with us by ten o'clock or thereabouts . '' `` Ah ! '' exclaimed Lady Olivia , `` that is just the point about which I can not help feeling apprehensive . Do you think , Colonel , that it will be quite safe to trust ourselves to a ship that has been lying all these years neglected and uncared for at the bottom of the English Channel ? ''