The scant lares and penates were sufficient to explain something of this shiplike trimness of the housekeeping.

The broken half of a ship's wheel clung to the wall above the narrow grate, and the white marble mantel supported a sextant, a binocular, and other incidentals of a shipmaster's profession.

An engraving of the battle of Trafalgar and a portrait of Farragut spoke further of the sea.

If we take a liberty and run our eyes over the bookshelves we find many volumes relating to the development of sea power and textbooks of an old vintage on the sailing of ships and like matters.

And if we were to pry into the drawers of an old walnut cabinet in the study we should find illuminative data touching the life of Andrew Kelton.