or for any one else. But what's the Constitution between
friends? I'll get it for you at once--but, on two conditions:
that you don't tell anybody I got it, and that you tell me
why you want it, and what you ever did to deserve it."

Instead, Peter explained fully and so sympathetically that
the diplomat demanded that he, too, should be enrolled as one
of the Gilman Defense Committee.

"Doctor Gilman's history," he said, "must be presented to the
Sultan. You must have the five volumes rebound in red and
green, the colors of Mohammed, and with as much gold tooling
as they can carry. I hope," he added, they are not soiled."

"Not by me," Peter assured him.

"I will take them myself," continued Stimson, "to Muley
Pasha, the minister of foreign affairs, and ask him to
present them to his Imperial Majesty. He will promise to do
so, but he won't; but he knows I know he won't so that is all
right. And in return he will present us with the Order of the
Crescent of the third class."

"Going up!" exclaimed Peter. "The third class. That will cost
me my entire letter-of-credit."

"Not at all," said Stimson. "I've saved you from the
grafters. It will cost you only what you pay to have the
books rebound. And the THIRD class is a real honor of which
any one might be proud. You wear it round your neck, and at