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ions to go forward to the United States in the consular mailbag. Still other papers required careful consideration. "If you will excuse me," said the consul, rising, "I will go into another room to dictate a letter that I wish to send to your captain." Dave passed through another half hour of waiting. "It will be some time before the papers are ready," reported the consul, on his return. "In the meantime, Mr. Darrin, I am quite at your service." "I wonder if you have received any further news about the Tampico incident," Dave smiled, questioningly. "Nothing further, I fancy, than was sent by wireless to all the American warships in these waters." "Is that incident going to lead to war?" Darrin asked. "It is hard to say," replied the consul, musingly. "But the people at home are very much worked up over it." "They are?" asked Dave, eagerly. "Indeed, yes! In general, the American press predicts that now nothing is so likely as United States intervention in this distracted country. Some of our American editors even declare boldly that the time has come to bring about the permanent occupation and annexation of Mexico." "I hope our country won't go that far," Dave exclaimed, with a gesture of disgust. "I should hate to think of having to welcome the Mexicans as fellow citizens of the great republic." "I don't believe that we need worry about it," smiled the consul. "It is only the jingo papers that are talking in that vein." "How does Congress feel about the situation?" Dave asked. "Why, I am glad to say that Congress appears to be in line for as strong action as the government may wish to take." "It really looks like war, then." "It looks as though our troops might land on the Mexican coast by way of reprisal," replied the consul. "That would bring stubborn resistance from the Mexicans, and then, as a result, intervention would surely follow. There may be men with minds bright enough to see the difference between armed intervention and war." "I'm stupid then," Ensign Dave smiled. "I can't see any difference in the actual results. So you believe, sir, that the people of the United States are practically a unit for taking a strong hand in Mexican affairs?" "The people of the United States have wanted just that action for at least two years," the consul answered. "That was the way it looked to me," Dave nodded. "By the way, sir, did you hear anything about an armed encounte
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