Mistaking the cause of my good spirits, he called a captain to him and said, "There is an officer coming on board who is drunk; go and ask him who he is." The captain accordingly came over and greeting me pleasantly said, "How do you do, Sir ?" "Very well, thank you," I replied, smiling all the more.

I was afraid he had come up to send me back.

Having been a teetotaler for twenty-two years, I knew nothing of the horrible suspicion under (p.

036) which I lay at the moment.

The captain then said, "Who are you, Sir ?" and I, thinking of my happy escape from army red tape, answered quite innocently, with a still broader grin, "I'm No.