I didn't know he was a gen'lem'n; but then, I never see him cleaned up." "How was that ?" I cried.

"O yes, I remember: he was sick all the way to 'Frisco, was he not ?" "Sick, or sorry, or something," returned my informant.

"My belief, he didn't hanker after showing up.

He kep' close; the ward-room steward, what took his meals in, told me he ate nex' to nothing; and he was fetched ashore at 'Frisco on the quiet.

Here was how it was.