I will furnish your pilot with a diagram, provided you agree to keep our secret and deliver the diagram to the English officer you will meet at Calais." They agreed to this and after the formalities were concluded the officer prepared to depart.
"I must congratulate you," he remarked on leaving, "on having the best equipped hospital ship it has been my fortune to see.

There are many in the service, as you know, but the boats are often mere tubs and the fittings of the simplest description.

The wounded who come under your care will indeed be fortunate.

It is wonderful to realize that you have come all the way from America, and at so great an expense, to help the victims of this sad war.

For the Allies I thank you, and--good-bye!" They remembered this kindly officer long afterward, for he proved more generous than many of the English they met.
Captain Carg now steamed ahead, watching his chart carefully to avoid the fields of mines, but within two hours he was again hailed, this time by an armored cruiser.