with him, and here they were on the steamer "Eagle," bound for
Liverpool.

Toots, dressed like a "swell," was on the pier. He shouted with the
others, waving his silk hat.

The crowd was cheering now:

"Beka Co ax Co ax Co ax!
Breka Co ax Co ax Co ax!
O-----up! O-----up!
Parabolou!
Yale! Yale! Yale!
'Rah! 'rah! 'rah!
Yale!"




CHAPTER II.

SURPRISING THE FRENCHMAN.


"Bah! Ze American boy, he make me--what you call eet?--vera tired!"

Frank turned quickly and saw the speaker standing near the rail not far
away. He was a man between thirty-five and forty years of age, dressed
in a traveling suit, and having a pointed black beard. He was smoking.