San Francisco, promoter and financier; Randolph Fitts, of Boston,
the well-known architect; Percy Knapendyke, the celebrated naturalist;
Michael O'Malley Malone, of the law firm of Eads, Blixton, Solomon,
Carlson, Vecchiavalli, Revitsky, Perkins & Malone, New York; William
Spinney, of the Chicago Police force, (and his prisoner, "Soapy"
Shay, diamond thief); Denby Flattner, the taxidermist; Morris Shine,
the motion picture magnate; Madame Careni-Amori, soprano from the
Royal Opera, Rome; Signer Joseppi, the new tenor, described as
the logical successor to the great Caruso; Madame Obosky and three
lesser figures in the Russian Ballet, who were coming to the United
States to head a long-heralded tour, "by special arrangement with
the Czar"; Buck Chizler, the famous jockey,--and so on.

These were the names most conspicuously displayed by the newspapers
during the anxious, watchful days and weeks that succeeded the
sailing of the Doraine from the port in the Tropic of Capricorn.

Dozens of cities in the United States were represented by one or more
persons on board the Doraine, travellers of both sexes who, being
denied the privilege of a customary dash to Europe for the annual
holiday, resolved not to be deprived of their right to wander, nor
the right to return when they felt inclined. Whilom, defiant rovers
in search of change, they scoffed at conditions and went their way
regardless of the peril that stalked the seas. In the main they
were money-spending, time-dragging charges against the resources
of a harassed, bewildered government, claiming protection in return
for arrogance.

Far to the south, off the Falkland Islands, at the bottom of the
sea, lay the battered hulls of what ware supposed to be the last