"Hired a Vienna doctor to say I ought to be kept at sea between Gibraltar and the Bosphorus.

And here, by George, is America the dear, bully old America of Washington, Franklin, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln! And they want to keep me chasing around among ruins and tombs! I say to you, Mr.
Harwood, in all solemnity, that I've goo-gooed my last goo-goo at the tombs of dead kings!" They stood near the shop door during this interchange.

Dan forgot, in his increasing interest and mystification, that the "Courier's" city editor was waiting for news of Thatcher, the capitalist.

Young Thatcher's narrative partook of the nature of a protest.

He was seriously in rebellion against his own expatriation.