down 'full faddom five.'"

"I'm sorry, but I have only revealed an honest tendency of character.
Piracy is probably a more profitable line of business than discovery.
Discoverers benefit mankind at great sacrifice and expense, and die
before they can receive the royal thanks. A pirate's business is all
done over the counter on a strictly cash basis."

They were silent for a moment, continuing their tramp. Pair weather was
peopling the decks. Dick Claiborne was engrossed with a vivacious
California girl, and Shirley saw him only at meals; but he and Armitage
held night sessions in the smoking-room, with increased liking on both
sides.

"Armitage isn't a bad sort," Dick admitted to Shirley. "He's either an
awful liar, or he's seen a lot of the world."

"Of course, he has to travel to sell his glassware," observed Shirley.
"I'm surprised at your seeming intimacy with a mere 'peddler,'--and you
an officer in the finest cavalry in the world."

"Well, if he's a peddler he's a high-class one--probably the junior
member of the firm that owns the works."

Armitage saw something of all the Claibornes every day in the pleasant
intimacy of ship life, and Hilton Claiborne found the young man an
interesting talker. Judge Claiborne is, as every one knows, the
best-posted American of his time in diplomatic history; and when they
were together Armitage suggested topics that were well calculated to
awaken the old lawyer's interest.