Go where you like, old fellow! The ship is yours, so long as you make no trouble." "Oh, thank you!" cried the Little Colonel, looking up at the big British captain with a beaming face.

"I'd rathah be tied up myself than to have Hero kept down there in the hold.

I'm suah he'll not bothah anybody." Nor did he.

No one from stoker to deck steward could make the slightest complaint against him, so dignified and well behaved was he.

Lloyd was proud of him and his devotion.