logists,
archaeologists, explorers; sportsmen who had forsaken the lion,
rhinoceros, hartebeest and elephant of Africa for the jaguar, cougar,
armadillo and anteater of South America; soldiers of fortune whose
gods had lured them into the comparative safety of South American
revolutions; miners, stock buyers and raisers, profiteersmen, diplomats,
priests, preachers, gamblers, smugglers and thieves; others who had
gone out for the Allies to buy horses, beeves, grain, metal, chemicals,
manganese and men; financiers, merchants, lawyers, writers, musicians,
doctors, dentists, architects; gentiles and Jews, Protestants and
Catholics, skeptics and infidels,--in short, good men, bad men, beggar
men, thieves.

The world will readily recall such names and personalities as these:
Abel T. Landover, the great New York banker; Peter Snipe, the novelist;
Solomon Nicklestick, the junior member in the firm of Winkelwein &
Nicklestick, importers of hides, etc., Ninth Avenue, New York; Moses
Block, importer of rubber; James January Jones, of San Francisco,
promoter and financier; Randolph Fitts, of Boston, the well-known
architect; Percy Knapendyke, the celebrated naturalist; Michael
O'Malley Malone, of the law firm of Eads, Blixton, Solomon, Carlson,
Vecchiavalli, Revitsky, Perkins & Malone, New York; William Spinney,
of the Chicago Police force, (and his prisoner, "Soapy" Shay, diamond
thief); Denby Flattner, the taxidermist; Morris Shine, the motion
picture magnate; Madame Careni-Amori, soprano from the Royal Opera,
Rome; Signer Joseppi, the new tenor, described as the logical successor
to the great Caruso; Madame Obosky and three lesser figures in
the Russian Ballet, who were coming to the United States to head
a long-heralded tour, "by special arrangement with the Czar"; Buck
Chizler, the famous jockey,--and so on.

These were the names most conspicuously displayed by the newspapers
during the anxious, watchful days and weeks that succeeded the sailing
of the Doraine from the port in the Tropic of Capricorn.

Dozens of cities in the United States were represented by one or more
persons on board the Doraine, travellers of both sexes who, being denied
the privilege of a customary dash to Europe for the annual holiday,
resolved not to be deprived of their right to wander, nor the right
to return when they felt inclined. Whilom, defiant rovers in search of
change, they scoffed at conditions and went their way regardless of
the peril