rning they were still sitting there, heads
together and arms across each other's shoulders.

When we grew tired of walking we sought little anchorages. By two
o'clock any man on deck could have had his pick of abandoned chairs, but
they were not good chairs--the extension part too short. One very young
Canadian officer opened up his kit, made a bed and what lee he could of
the forward smoke-stack. A round smoke-stack makes a poor lee, but once
tucked in he stuck, and was there in the morning when clear light came.

The moon went behind clouds, and from the clouds little cold showers of
rain came peppering down. Heavier clouds came, and heavier squalls with
rain; and a mean little cross sea began to make. Straight ahead, above
the little seas a light showed, and soon another--this a powerful one.
We were still going at a great clip. We might know it anew by the way
that big light jumped forward to meet us. Soon we had it off our bow,
abeam, on our quarter; we were inshore.

A destroyer came out to meet us and blinked a message from screened
lights. More ships met us. We passed other ships--all kinds of ships, of
which in detail a man must not write here.

In good time and in smooth waters we made our landing. There was another
long wait, the same passport grilling, but in a different way, and then
a fast train to London. A taxi then, a room, a shave and bath, clean
linen, and--oh boy!--the roast beef of old England and people you knew
to talk to!

THE CENSORS

Before a visiting correspondent can do anything on the other side he has
to report to a censor somewhere. In London the Chief Admiralty Censor
was a retired Royal Navy captain and a Sir Knight, but not wearing his
uniform or parading his knighthood. He was quartered in an old dark
building where Nelson used to hang out in the days before Trafalgar.
There was a sign on the door:

DON'T KNOCK. COME IN

He was a good sort, with not a sign about him of that swank which so
many of the military caste seem to think it necessary to adopt. He was
perfectly willing to pass me on to our naval base and go right ahead
with my work; but he did not have charge of the naval base. There was an
admiral over there--not an American admiral--who had full charge of our
war-ships there. Without his permission not one of them could tie up to
a mooring in the harbor. I would have to get his permission even to
visit the base. My very human censor i