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"The midshipmen are allowed a stove to themselves very unusual and they are cooking all day." "Talking about midshipmen, sir," replied Cross, "you may think it's very odd but as I stand here and you know, Mr Culpepper, I am not easily scared I saw that young Tommy Dott, or his ghost, this very evening."

Look at her right there in the newspaper, with all that piece about her in print! I wish Labe could read such a piece in the paper about me. Why, what ails you, Daniel Dott? Just look at that photograph!" Captain Dan rose. "Yes," he said drily, "I've been lookin' at it. That's part of what ails me." On Saturday he was at the station to meet his wife.

Serena, sitting with her elbow on the table, her hand to her forehead, and her untasted ice before her, looked up in a bewildered way. "What why, what do you mean, Gertie?" she stammered. "What I don't think I understood you." "What is the matter, Mother?" repeated Gertrude. "Don't you feel well?" Still Mrs. Dott did not seem to understand.

Ten minutes later the telephone bell rang. "Hello! Here is your Boston call," announced Central. "All right! all right! Is this Saunders, Griffin and Company? ... Hey? ... Is Mr. Doane there?... What? I want to know! Is that you, John? ... This is Dott, speakin'.... Yes, Dan Dott.... No, no, of Trumet, not Scarford.... Yes.... YES.... Here! you let me do the talkin'; you listen."

There he sits, upon the teakwood chair which I myself bought in Cairo, and, so far from being grateful for the gifts which my generosity has poured into his lap, he is wondering what in the world to do with them, and wishing himself back in Trumet." Mrs. Dott and the caretaker reentered the hall. "Thank you, Mr. er Thank you, Hapgood," said the lady. "That will be all for to-day, I think.

"Sentry, send the officer on deck to man the jolly-boat, and tell Mr Dott to come here immediately." I was on deck when the sentry put his head up the ladder and gave the order, and I immediately perceived the plan of the first lieutenant and the state of alarm in which Tommy Dott must have been put.

If we are, I'll have to sleep in the daytime, like a fo'mast hand on night lookout." "But wasn't it splendid?" explained his wife. "Weren't they cultivated, brilliant people? You and I never went to anything like THAT dinner before, Daniel Dott." The captain admitted that they never did. "Could you make anything out of that game they were playin'?" he asked. "What was it they called it?" "Bridge.

"You are not the keen fellow I thought you were," said he; "you are up to nothing now; there's no fun in you, as there used to be." He was mistaken; there was fun in me, but there was also prudence, and from what I had latterly seen of Tommy Dott, I did not think he was to be trusted.

By the time she remembered to ask about it the captain had decided not to tell. He fabricated some excuse or other, and the excuse was accepted, to his great relief. None of the Dott household attended the Wainwright recital. Mr. Holway called on Wednesday, just after luncheon, to say that he had obtained the necessary cards, but his kindness went for nought.

It is true that Tommy Dott could have contradicted all this; but, in the first place, it was not very likely that there would be any communication upon the point between him and the officers; and in the next I cautioned him to say nothing about what he knew, which, as he was strongly attached to me, he strictly complied with: so Bob Cross completely mystified the surgeon, who, of course, made his report to his messmates.