so he will be able to make that go all right. Alice had made him a
shaving-case, with a rose worked on it. And H. O. gave him his knife--
the same one he once cut all the buttons off his best suit with. Dicky
gave him his prize, Naval Heroes, because it was the best thing he had,
and Noel gave him a piece of poetry he had made himself--

When sin and shame bow down the brow
Then people feel just like we do now.
We are so sorry with grief and pain
We never will be so ungentlemanly again.

Lord Tottenham seemed very pleased. He thanked us, and talked to us for
a bit, and when he said good-bye he said--

'All's fair weather now, mates,' and shook hands.

And whenever we meet him he nods to us, and if the girls are with us he
takes off his hat, so he can't really be going on thinking us
ungentlemanly now.



CHAPTER 11
CASTILIAN AMOROSO

One day when we suddenly found that we had half a crown we decided that
we really ought to try Dicky's way of restoring our fallen fortunes
while yet the deed was in our power. Because it might easily have
happened to us never to have half a crown again. So we decided to dally
no longer with being journalists and bandits and things like them, but