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.
By some peculiar inadvertency, as he was in the middle of one of his own adventures, his finger touched the burglar alarm.

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.
"You touched the alarm, father." "I rather believe I did.

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.
"Good night, Mr.Fitzgerald," said the girl.