'Bully for you, Uncle Ned.

Fetch it aft, will you ?' The schooner steered very easy; and Herrick, watching the moon-whitened sails, was overpowered by drowsiness.

A sharp report from the cabin startled him; a third bottle had been opened; and Herrick remembered the Sea Ranger and Fourteen Island Group.

Presently the notes of the accordion sounded, and then the captain's voice: 'O honey, with our pockets full of money, We will trip, trip, trip, we will trip it on the quay, And I will dance with Kate, and Tom will dance with Sall, When we're all back from South Amerikee.' So it went to its quaint air; and the watch below lingered and listened by the forward door, and Uncle Ned was to be seen in the moonlight nodding time; and Herrick smiled at the wheel, his anxieties a while forgotten.

Song followed song; another cork exploded; there were voices raised, as though the pair in the cabin were in disagreement; and presently it seemed the breach was healed; for it was now the voice of Huish that struck up, to the captain's accompaniment-- 'Up in a balloon, boys, Up in a balloon, All among the little stars And round about the moon.' A wave of nausea overcame Herrick at the wheel.