my friends and everything American. It's
your turn to take a little of the medicine."

"Eef we were een France--"

"Which we are not. We are still in America, the land of the free. But I
don't care to have a quarrel with you. Bruce put the fellow down. If he
minds his business in the future, don't throw him overboard."

"All right," grunted the big fellow; "but I was just going to drop him
in the wet."

He put the man down, and the fellow seemed undecided what to do.

Harry Rattleton laughed.

"Now wake a talk--no, I mean take a walk," he cried. "It will be a good
thing for your health."

"Come, Maurel," said the master, with an attempt at dignity; "come away
from ze fellows!"

Maurel was glad enough to do so. He had thought to frighten the youths
without the least trouble, but had been handled with such ease that even
after it was all over he wondered how it could have happened.

M. Montfort walked away with great dignity, and Maurel followed, talking
savagely and swiftly in French.

"Well, it wasn't very hard to settle them," grinned Browning.

"But we have not settled them," declared Frank. "There will be further
trouble with M. Rouen Montfort and his man Maurel."

CHAPTER III.

A FRESH YOUNG MAN.

Frank and his three friends bad a stateroom together. The tutor was
given a room with other parties.

The weather for the first two days was fine, and the young collegians
enjoyed every minute, not one of them having a touch of sea-sickness
till the third day.

Then Rattleton was seized, and he lay in his bunk, groaning and dismal,
even though he tried to be cheerful at times.

Browning enjoyed everything, even Rattleton's misery, for he could be
lazy to his heart's content.

They had enlivened the times by singing songs, those of a nautical
flavor, such as "Larboard Watch" and "A Life on the Ocean Wave," having
the preference.

Now it happened that the Frenchman occupied a room adjoining, and he was
very much annoyed by their singing. He pounded on the partition, and
expressed his feelings in very lurid language, but that amused them, and
they sang the louder.

"M. Montfort seems to get very agitated," said Frank, laughing.

"But I hardly think there is any danger that he will do more than hammer
on the partition," grunted Bruce. "He's kept away from us since he found
he could not frighten anybody."

"He's a bluffer," was Diamond's opinion.

"He's a great fellow to play cards," said