I SHOULD like to know what nation's got the credit of HIM, that I should." Then Peter had an idea.

He pulled an envelope out of his pocket, and showed that it was half full of foreign stamps.
"Look here," he said, "let's show him these--" Bobbie looked and saw that the stranger had dried his eyes with her handkerchief.

So she said: "All right." They showed him an Italian stamp, and pointed from him to it and back again, and made signs of question with their eyebrows.

He shook his head.

Then they showed him a Norwegian stamp--the common blue kind it was--and again he signed No.