That's why I want you and me to be friends, Captain Warren." "Sure!" Captain Elisha nodded emphatically.

"That's what I want, too." But that evening, immediately after his return to the apartment, when--Caroline having gone to her own room to remove her wraps--he and the butler were alone, he characteristically unburdened his mind.
"Mr.Warren, sir," said Edwards, "a young gentleman left a note here for you this afternoon.

The elevator man gave it to me, sir.

It's on your dressing table, sir." The captain's answer had nothing whatever to do with the note.

He had been thinking of other things.
"Commodore," he said, "I've got the answer." "To the note?
Already, sir?
I didn't know you'd seen it." "I ain't.