he's the kind of man who makes a navy a good fighting machine."

"But we usually pick out gentlemen to captain our private yachts."

"Oh, this Flanagan is an exception. There is probably a fighting bond
between him and the admiral; that makes some difference. You observed,
he called the owner by the title of commodore, as he did thirty-five
years ago. Ten o'clock; we should be going up."

The carriage was at the hotel when they returned. They bundled in
their traps, and drove away.

The little man now dropped into the railway station, and stuck his head
into the ticket aperture. The agent, who was seated before the
telegraph keys, looked up.

"No tickets before half-past ten, sir."

"I am not wanting a ticket. I wish to know if I can send a cable from
here."

"A cable? Sure. Where to?"

"Paris."

"Yes, sir. I telegraph it to the cable office in New York, and they do
the rest. Here are some blanks."

The other wrote some hieroglyphics, which made the address impossible
to decipher, save that it was directed mainly to Paris. The body of