and ticket-speculators nowadays, for example.

Another thing which preoccupied Mr. Dainopoulos was his responsibility
towards Mr. Spokesly. He didn't want anything to happen to him. His wife
was always talking about him. Of course that baggage Evanthia was after
him, but Mr. Dainopoulos was not worrying about her. He was anxious that
Mr. Spokesly should not get into trouble over this trip. There might be
something about the latter part of the voyage that the chief mate
wouldn't like at all. If anything miscarried he might not be able to
prove he did not know what was going on. Mr. Dainopoulos mentioned it in
the garden afterwards.

"Don't you interfere with the captain, Mister," he remarked, over a
cigarette.

"Eh!" said Mr. Spokesly, wondering very much. "How can I interfere with
a man like him? He sets the course, and I run it off. No business o'
mine what he's doing."

This was so exactly in accordance with Mr. Dainopoulos's views and so
exactly what Mr. Spokesly ought to say supposing he knew everything,
that the former looked hard at the mate and uttered a cackling snarl of
astonished satisfaction.

"Why, that's just it. You let him settle everything."

"Except the work about the deck."

"Ah-h!" Mr. Dainopoulos was not lying awake at night worrying about the
condition of the deck of the _Kalkis_. But he said nothing more than his
guttural "Ah!"

"And the accommodation has got to be kept clean while I'm there,"
babbled Mr. Spokesly.

"Why, certainly, certainly," assented Mr. Dainopoulos.

"I ought to tell you I tried to get a passport for Miss Solaris," said
Mr. Spokesly in a low tone. "They wouldn't hear of it."

"I told her three or four times it was no good," said Mr. Dainopoulos
irritably. "What does she think she is?"

"Well, she's got the idea she wants to go to Athens and...."

"She won't go to Athens."

"You mean the ship don't go to Piraeus?"

"I mean she won't go to Athens."

"Well, I done the best I could for her. She could have my cabin, and I'd
sleep in the chart-room."

"How can she get on board?" asked Mr. Dainopoulos. "Does she think I'm
goin' to get myself into a lotta trouble for her? Why, let me say to
you, Mister, I do plenty business with these peoples, but I could not
get a passport now for Mrs. Dainopoulos. No! How can I get one for a
girl who nobody knows nothing about? Such foolishness!"

"Just what I told her and she laughed at me and told me she'd manage
it."

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