CHAPTER III.
Mr.Block looked uneasily out over the tumbling ocean, focusing his gaze on a section of the horizon that for want of something more definite than mere hope lay in a direct line with the City of New York.
"And ven you stop to think," said he wistfully, "that we are still something like six thousand miles from home,--oh, veil! Vat's the use?
I bet you I never go so far avay from my business again.

Vat a fool I vas to make this trip ven the whole ocean is full of submarines and German agents and plotters and--Yes, vat a fool ven I had so many high-priced men vorking for me who vas crazy to come.

But my vife she vould do it.
Paris and London every year it used to be, so she must haf a little holiday or she vill die, she say.

Veil, here we are.

And ven I think vat a long holiday it is going to be maybe,--by gracious, I could kick myself for not giving in to my brother-in-law ven he begged so hard to be allowed to make the trip because he needed the change from not being avay from the office for five years, and his vife and children too.