I wished more'n once that Peter T.Brown, our business manager, was aboard to help me with advice, but Peter is off tourin' the Yosemite with his wife and her relations, so whatever pilotin' there was I had to do.

And every day fetched Jonadab's bows nigher the matrimonial rocks.
"I'd about made up my mind to sound the fog horn by askin' him straight out what he was cal'latin' to do; but somethin' I heard one evenin', as I set alone in the hotel office, made me think I'd better wait a spell.
"The office window was open and the curtain drawed down tight.

I was settin' inside, smokin' and goin' over the situation, when footsteps sounded on the piazza and a couple come to anchor on the settee right by that window.

Cap'n Jonadab and Henrietta! I sensed that immediate.
"She was laughin' and actin' kind of queer, and he was talkin' mighty earnest.
"'Oh, no, Cap'n! Oh, no!' she giggles.

'You mustn't be so serious on such a beautiful night as this.