n the
second place, he enjoyed Manuel's vituperative remarks about cutting the
liver out of the "boss." Notwithstanding the fact that Manuel was
more or less given to cutting the livers out of remote and invisible
persons,--including King Alfonso, the Kaiser, Queen Victoria (he didn't
know she was dead), King Manuel, the Czar of Russia, the Presidents
of all the South American republics, the Sultan of Turkey, President
Roosevelt, and Sebastian Cabral,--Mr. Landover positively loved to hear
him talk. He made a point of getting him to talk about Percival a great
deal of the time. He also liked the way in which the prodigious Manuel
deferred to him. It inspired the philanthropic motives that led him to
share his very excellent cigars with the doughty foreman. Moreover, he
had something far back in his mind, had Mr. Abel Landover.

Percival was indefatigable. He set the example for every one else, and
nothing daunted him. The sceptics,--and there were many of them at the
start,--no longer shook their heads as they went about what once
had loomed as a hopeless enterprise, for to their astonishment and
gratification the "camp" was actually becoming a substantial reality.

The small group of men who, for obvious reasons, had courted the favour
of Abel Landover at the outset, now went out of their way to "stand in"
with the amazingly popular man of the hour.

He represented power, he stood for achievement, he rode on the crest of
the wave,--and so they believed in him! Landover may have been a wizard
in New York, but the wizard of Trigger Island was quite another person
altogether,--hence the very sensible defection.

These gentlemen openly and ardently opposed him on one occasion,
however. It was when he proposed that the island should be named for
the beloved Captain. They insisted that it be called Percival Island.
Failing in this, they advocated with great enthusiasm, but with no
success, the application of Percival's name to almost every noticeable
peculiarity that the island possessed. They objected fiercely to
the adoption of such titles as these: Mott Haven (the basin); Split
Mountain; Gray Ridge (after the lamented Chief Engineer); Penguin Rocks;
The Gate of the Winds; Top o' the Morning Peak; Dismal Forest (west of
the channel); Peter Pan Wood (east of the channel); Good Luck Channel;
Cypress Point; Cape Sunrise (the extreme easterly end of the island);
Leap-frog River; Little Sandy and Big Sandy (the beaches); Cra