were drawn, his claws pared.

Would he ever rise again, Frobisher wondered, under men worthy of the
heroes who were only too willing to fight his battles? Time alone would
show.

There is little more to add to the present history of Captain Murray
Frobisher.

The captured destroyer was, of course, claimed by Japan, and Frobisher
himself remained a prisoner for one day, until the treaty was signed.
Then, being free, he sought Admiral Wong-lih, who had refused to follow
his comrades' example and destroy himself. The Englishman obtained from
him the loan of an old gunboat, armed and manned her at his own expense,
went up the Hoang-ho, and settled an outstanding account with certain
pirates and an individual by the name of Ah-fu.

Then Drake and he revisited the ruined palace, and brought away Genghiz
Khan's hoard, which the two men shared and brought to England, where
they arrived about Christmas time.

Frobisher was now an immensely wealthy man, and a famous one, too, for
he found that the account of his services with the Chinese Navy had
reached home, and that his name was in everybody's mouth.

He was surprised, on the day following his arrival, to receive a visit
from Dick Penryn, who, after the first warm greetings had passed, handed
him a document intimating that the former sentence of the court martial
had been reversed; that Frobisher had been reinstated in the British
Navy, with the rank of captain; and that a ship was waiting for him as
soon as he cared to take command.

He had, however, a little business of his own to transact first; and the
nature of it became apparent, a little more than a year later, when
Captain Murray Frobisher, of Her Majesty's cruiser _Dauntless_,
presented to a grateful and astonished country no less than four
splendid battleships of the latest design, built in the mother country
with part of the proceeds of his share of the hoard of the ancient
"Conqueror of Asia". He did not intend, he said to the deputation who
waited upon him to thank him, that his country should ever be exposed to
the danger of the fate that had overtaken China. If China had had more
ships she might have come off victorious in her war with Japan, in spite
of the manifold disadvantages to which she had been subjected. These
were disadvantages of a kind to which Great Britain, he knew, would
never be exposed; but he wanted his beloved country to possess a good
"margin of safety."

After this generous a