"There is something in your mind.

I can see that.

You have told me so much that you had better tell me the rest." "The contents of those despatches," Mr.Harvey continued, "intrusted in duplicate, as you have doubtless surmised, to Fynes and to Coulson, contained an assurance that the sending of our fleet to the Pacific was in fact, as well as in appearance, an errand of peace.

It was a demonstration, pure and simple.

Behind it there may have lain, indeed, a masterful purpose, the determination of a great country to affirm her strenuous existence in a manner most likely to impress the nations unused to seeing her in such a role.