shrimp like that was the Earl of Ivy? And that that tall blonde
girl," he added indignantly, "that I thought was an accomplice, is
Lady Moya, his sister?"

"What happened?" I asked.

Kinney was wearing his hat. He took it off and hurled it to the
floor.

"It was that damned hat!" he cried. "It's a Harvard ribbon, all
right, but only men on the crew can wear it! How was I to know
THAT? I saw Aldrich looking at it in a puzzled way, and when he
said, 'I see you are on the crew,' I guessed what it meant, and
said I was on last year's crew. Unfortunately HE was on last
year's crew! That's what made him suspect me, and after dinner he
put me through a third degree. I must have given the wrong
answers, for suddenly he jumped up and called me a swindler and an
impostor. I got back by telling him he was a crook and that I was
a detective, and that I had sent a wireless to have him arrested at
New Bedford. He challenged me to prove I was a detective, and, of
course, I couldn't, and he called up two stewards and told them to
watch me while he went after the purser. I didn't fancy being
watched, so I came here."

"When did you tell him I was the Earl of Ivy?"

Kinney ran his fingers through his hair and groaned dismally.

"That was before the boat started," he said; "it was only a joke.
He didn't seem to be interested in my conversation, so I thought