and to suggest an action which may be taken by the gentlemen, the passengers of the first cabin will kindly assemble in the main dining salon at nine this evening, by request of
"The Captain."
"I see!" the girl comprehended. "Who is to address the meeting?"
"Oh, the captain and Mr. Dunneston, chiefly."
"And not you also?" the girl queried suspiciously.
"Yes," he confessed, "they asked me, as an American and the first one robbed, to help them with a few words."
"I thought so!"
"But I didn't want to, truly. I would much prefer to take you to the meeting."
"Thank you; but I can come with any of my present forty chaperones!" She turned away and, nodding brightly, left him.
He saw her only once or twice again that day when other girls and women were with her. But sharp at nine that evening she
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