"They would repaint and alter her appearance.

But the dining saloon.

Was there a long carved oak buffet with a big, heavy cornice with three gilt dolphins in the center--and were there not dolphins in gilt on the backs of the chairs--an armorial device ?" "Yes," I cried.

"You are right.

I remember them! You've surely been on board her!" "And there is a ladies' saloon and a small boudoir in pink beyond, while the smoking-room is entirely of marble for the heat ?" "Exactly--the same yacht, no doubt! But what do you know of her ?" "The captain, who gave his name to you as Mackintosh, is an undersized American of a rather low-down type ?" "I took him for a Scotsman." "Because he put on a Scotch accent," he laughed.