"What's the matter with Schmidt?
He's--all--right!" thundered the whole press of the United States.

And all because he had made a good bargain at a critical moment! But no one on board the _Unser Fritz_ was vexed by aught save present tribulations when De Sylva and his _aide_ quitted the ship.

Be sure that not a soul thought of sleep.

Every man, and the one woman whom chance had thrown in their midst, remained on deck and watched the slumbering town.

It was only a small place.