"Thanks, Captain," he said to himself.

"It is the least you can do to get even with me!" Here his relations with the German and his clientele came to an end.

The merchants, as they approached nearer and nearer to their native land, began casting off that servile desire of ingratiating themselves which they had assumed in all their trips to the new world.

They now had more important things to occupy them.

The telegraphic service was working without cessation.