"Clever, practical, and--eh--eh--tremendously interesting.

Now, then, listen carefully--all of you! It's up to you, Jones, to accompany Maud on the night express to Washington.

Get the Red Cross Society to back our scheme and supply us with proper credentials.

The _Arabella_ must be rated as a hospital ship and our party endorsed as a distinct private branch of the Red Cross--what they call a 'unit.' I'll give you a letter to our senator and he will look after our passports and all necessary papers.

I--I helped elect him, you know.