Show Excerpt d the Tyro of himself, as he watched the forlorn little figure out of sight, "what have I let myself in for this time?" With a view to gathering information about the functions, habits, and capacities of a pilot-boat, he started down to the office and was seized upon the companionway by a grizzled and sunbaked man of fifty who greeted him joyously. "Sandy Is it yourself? Well met to you " "Hello, Dr. Alderson," returned the young man with warmth. "Going over? What luck for me " "Why? Need a chaperon?" "A cicerone, anyway. It's my first trip, and I don't know a soul aboard." "Oh,...