22/24 I have tried to acquire the cigarette habit, but I have yet to learn what satisfaction you men get out of it." Conversation veered in various directions, and finally rested upon the subject of piracy; and here the admiral proved himself a rare scholar. Clang! Brrrr! From top to bottom of the house came the shock of differently voiced bells. The two men gazed at each other dumfounded. But the girl laughed merrily. And a few minutes before you came in with the toddies I tried it and it didn't work." It took some time to quiet the servants; and when that was done Fitzgerald determined to go down to the village. |