except _nix verstay_ and _noch einst_. I would have called that "See,
senor" French, though, on a gamble.'

"Well, we three made a sneak around the edge of town so as not to
be seen. We got tangled in vines and ferns and the banana bushes
and tropical scenery a good deal. The monkey suburbs was as wild as
places in Central Park. We came out on the beach a good half mile
below. A brown chap was lying asleep under a cocoanut tree, with
a ten-foot musket beside him. Mr. Wahrfield takes up the gun and
pitches it into the sea. 'The coast is guarded,' he says. 'Rebellion
and plots ripen like fruit.' He pointed to the sleeping man, who
never stirred. 'Thus,' he says, 'they perform trusts. Children!'

"I saw our boat coming, and I struck a match and lit a piece of
newspaper to show them where we were. In thirty minutes we were on
board the yacht.

"The first thing, Mr. Wahrfield and his daughter and I took the grip
into the owner's cabin, opened it up, and took an inventory. There
was one hundred and five thousand dollars, United States treasury
notes, in it, besides a lot of diamond jewelry and a couple of
hundred Havana cigars. I gave the old man the cigars and a receipt
for the rest of the lot, as agent for the company, and locked the
stuff up in my private quarters.

"I never had a pleasanter trip than that one. After we got to
sea the young lady turned out to be the jolliest ever. The very
first time we sat down to dinner, and the steward filled her glass
with champagne--that director's yacht was a regular floating
Waldorf-Astoria--she winks at me and says, 'What's the use to borrow
trouble, Mr. Fly Cop? Here's hoping you may live to eat the hen that
scratches on your grave.' There was a piano on board, and she sat
down to it and sung better than you give up two cases to hear plenty
times. She knew about nine operas clear through. She was sure enough
_bon ton_ and swell. She wasn't one of the 'among others present'
kind; she belonged on the special mention list!

"The old man, too, perked up amazingly on the way. He passed the
cigars, and says to me once, quite chipper, out of a cloud of smoke,
'Mr. O'Day, somehow I think the Republic Company will not give me the
much trouble. Guard well the gripvalise of the money, Mr. O'Day, for
that it must be returned to them that it belongs when we finish to
arrive.'

"When we landed in New York I 'phoned to the chief to meet us in that
director's office. We got in a cab and