'Well,' said our Anglo Jap as we all drew up our chairs round the smoking room fire, 'it's an old tale out yonder, and may have spilt over into print for all I know. I don't want to turn this club room into a chestnut stall, but it is a long way to the Yellow Sea, and it is just as likely that none of you have ever heard of the yawl Matilda, and of what happened to Henry Jelland and Willy McEvoy aboard of her.