I SEE THE WORLD, AND SUFFER A GREAT LOSS The strange thing to me about my fight with Ace was that nobody thought of such a thing as punishing me for it.

I was free to fight or not as I pleased.

I needed to be free more than anything else, and I wanted plenty of good food and fresh air.

All these I got, for Captain Sproule, while stern and strict with us, enforced only those rules which were for the good of the boat, and these seemed like perfect liberty to me--after I whipped Ace.

As for my old tyrant, he recovered his spirits very soon, and took the place of an underling quite contentedly.