CHAPTER II.
SURPRISING THE FRENCHMAN.
"Bah! Ze American boy, he make me--what you call eet ?--vera tired!" Frank turned quickly and saw the speaker standing near the rail not far away.

He was a man between thirty-five and forty years of age, dressed in a traveling suit, and having a pointed black beard.

He was smoking.
An instant feeling of aversion swept over Merry.

He saw the person was a supercilious Frenchman, critical, sneering, insolent, a man intolerant with everything not of France and the French.
This man was speaking to another person, who seemed to be a servant or valet, and who was very polite and fawning in all his retorts.
"Ah! look at ze collectshung on ze pier," continued the sneering speaker.

"Someone say zey belong to ze great American college.