urdly moored with four anchors. She was occupied
in a perfectly incomprehensible manner. No man likes to be puzzled by
things which it is his business to understand. Doctors have been known
to deny the existence of symptoms which do not accord with those
proper to the patient's taste. Politicians are baffled and infuriated
by men who, indifferent to the sacred etiquette of the profession,
speak the truth in public. Engineers are angry when water persists in
oozing out of the top of a hill--as it sometimes does to the confusion
of all known laws--instead of trickling into the drains dug for it in
the valley underneath. So Captain Wilson's temper gave way because the
German steamer lay as no steamer in the charge of sane men ought to
lie; and Phillips was punished. Kings fly into a rage, said an ancient
poet, and the common people suffer for it.

Perhaps Phillips would have been consoled, he would have certainly
been less sulky during the evening, if he had seen what happened in
the palace. The Queen stood on the balcony all eagerness, her lips
parted, her eyes sparkling, a flush coming and going on her cheeks.
She watched the boat lowered, saw the men take their places, saw
Gorman climb cautiously down and seat himself in the stern. She
waited. Phillips was on deck. She could see him. The boat pushed off.
Phillips was not in her. He still stood on the steamer's lower deck
leaning over the bulwarks. The Queen turned and went into her room.
She flung herself down on a chair. She had much ado to hold back most
unqueenly tears of disappointment. Kalliope slipped off the grey and
silver dress she wore. Very silently she folded and put away the
clothes which lay scattered about the room. Then she sat down at the
Queen's feet and cried softly. She had a sympathetic soul. She
understood the Queen's feelings.

Gorman was received by Smith. After a few minutes he was led up to the
balcony where Donovan lay stretched on a deck chair with a box of
cigars at his elbow.

"I am very, very pleased to see you, Gorman," he said.

"I'm afraid," said Gorman, "that I've come to bother you. There's been
a lot of fuss in London about your purchase of this island. The
Emperor----"

Donovan waved his hand feebly and lay back in his chair with every
appearance of extreme exhaustion.

"Ill?" said Gorman.

"Two years ago," said Donovan, "after I had realized my little pile,
before I came over to Europe I sent for a doctor--leading man in h