.

" (Captain West nodded that he didn't mind).

"And if you'd want to hear them?
The machine is a good one." And then, to my amazement, when the steward had cleared the table, this hoary old relic of man-killing and man-driving days, battered waif of the sea that he was, carried in from his room a most splendid collection of phonograph records.

These, and the machine, he placed on the table.

The big doors were opened, making the dining-room and the main cabin into one large room.