thousand words,
and I get four hundred dollars a week salary from The Times, and all my
expenses. I haven't had any yet, but when I go back and join the army,
I am going to travel en suite with an assistant and the best and
gentlest ponies; a courier and a servant, a tent and a secretary and a
typewriter, so that Miles will look like a second lieutenant.

When I came out here on the Dolphin I said I was going to Tampa, lying
just on the principle that it is no other newspaper-man's business
where you are going. So, The Herald man at Key West, hearing this, and
not knowing I WAS GOING TO THE FLAGSHIP, called Long, making a strong
kick about the correspondents, Bonsal, Remington and Paine, who are, or
were, with the squadron. Stenie left two days ago, hoping to get a
commission on the staff of General Lee. So yesterday Scovel told me
Long had cabled in answer to The Herald's protests to the admiral as
follows: "Complaints have been received that correspondents Paine,
Remington and Bonsal are with the squadron. Send them ashore at once.
There must be no favoritism."

Scovel got the admiral at once to cable Long on his behalf because of
his services as a spy, but as Roosevelt had done so much for me, I
would not appeal over him, and this morning I sent in word to the
admiral that I was leaving the ship and would like to pay my respects.
Sampson is a thin man with a gray beard. He looks like a college
professor and has very fine, gentle eyes. He asked me why I meant to
leave the ship, and I said I had heard one of the torpedo boats was
going to Key West, and I thought I would go with her if he would allow
it. He asked if I had seen the cable from Long, and I said I had heard
of it, and that I was really going so as not to embarrass him with my
presence. He said, "I have received three different orders from the
Secretary, one of them telling me I could have such correspondents on
board as were agreeable to me. He now tells me that they must all go.
You can do as you wish. You are perfectly welcome to remain until the
conflict of orders is cleared up." I saw he was mad and that he wanted
me to stay, or at least not to go of my own wish, so that he could have
a grievance out of it--if he had to send me away after having been told
he could have those with him who were agreeable to him. Captain
Chadwick was in the cabin, and said, "Perhaps Mr. Davis had better
remain another twenty-four hours." The admiral added,