rescuers, a document that was signed by hisfellow-passengers and obtained for the men complete recognition and widecelebrity. Their windows looked downon a lot of Chinese houses-- tin-can houses, they were called--smallwooden shanties covered with beaten-out cans. One couldn't like or admire a man who ran his kind of business, but he had been a kinder master than some. Now and then he became cheerful and spoke of the Tennessee landas the seed of a vast fortune that must surely flower at last.
Frightfully good of you, old chap, said Sethos, overdoing the accent a bit. It was the debt which oneowes to a man who, from the deep measure of his understanding, givesencouragement and exactly needed and convincing advice. The fact is, he spent not more than a few days--a fortnight at most--in butterfly idleness, at the Lick H Must have been plugged with some substance that would slowly dissolve or be knocked out by the motion of the waves.