"Perhaps it will be better to let me go alone, as I originally expected to do.

But, if we take along the hospital ship, do not be extravagant, Mr.Merrick, in equipping it.

I feel that I have been the innocent cause of drawing you all into this venture and I do not want it to prove a hardship to my friends." "All right, Maud," returned Uncle John, with a cheerful grin, "I'll try to economize, now that you've warned me." Ajo smiled and Patsy Doyle laughed outright.

They knew it would not inconvenience the little rich man, in the slightest degree, to fit out a dozen hospital ships..