He's got the finest library on piracy in the world, everything from _The Pirates of Penzance_ to _The Life of Morgan_." "But there's no pirate afloat these days." "Not on the high seas, no.

It's just the old man's pastime.

Every so often, he coals up the yacht, which is a seventeen-knotter, and goes off to the South Seas, hunting for treasures." "By George!" Fitzgerald whistled softly.

"Has he ever found any ?" "Not so much as a postage stamp, so far as I know.

Money's always been in the family, and his Wall Street friends have shown him how to double what he has, from time to time.