And Petherick knows nothing about it and never dreams of an enemy in all the world, and in all naval and diplomatic life he has only fast friends.

If Mr.Bryan had removed him, he might have made a temporary friend of one Democrat from Oklahoma, and lasting enemies of all that Democrat's rivals and of the whole naval and diplomatic service.
_November, 1914._ We have to get away from it--or try to--a minute at a time; and the comic gods sometimes help us.

Squier[79] has a junior officer here to hold his desk down when he's gone.

He's a West Point Lieutenant with a German name.

His study is ordnance.