It is unbelievable, but it is true.

Graves can show you the note." The junior partner produced a slip of paper from the portfolio and regarded it frowningly.
"Of all the pieces of sheer lunacy," he observed, "that ever came under my observation, this is the worst.

Here it is, Captain Warren." He extended the paper.

Captain Elisha waved it aside.
"I don't want to see it--not yet," he protested.

"I want to think.