claim for the million if he doesn't show up in New York pretty shortly.
He is going to be declared officially dead, and so are all the rest of
us, after a reasonable time has elapsed. Now, I don't say that we are
never going to be rescued. We may be found inside of a month. Some of us
don't quite realize the fix we are in. Mr. Codge, the purser, was saying
a little while ago that a lady from the first cabin nearly took his head
off when he told her it was impossible to send a cable message to her
people in Boston. A number of passengers have already demanded that
their passage money be refunded.

"You have doubtless heard how I came to be on board this steamer. I am
a stowaway. I have no standing among you. I haven't a penny in my
pocket,--aside from a luck-piece that doesn't belong to me. I wanted to
get back to the States so that I could carry a gun or something over in
France. I wanted to fight for my country. I wasn't thinking very much
about my life when I started for home and France, but I want to say that
I'm thinking about it now. I don't intend to starve or freeze to death
if I can help it. I am going to fight for my life, not for my country.

"This is no time to be sentimental. It is no time to sit down and pity
ourselves or each other. God knows I am just as sorry for myself as you
are for yourselves, but that isn't going to get me anywhere. We've got
to work. That means all of us. It means the women as well as the men.
It means the women with soft, white hands and the men who never did a
stroke of manual labour in their lives, just as much as it means the
people who have never done anything else but work. Something will be
found for every one of us to do, and, ladies and gentlemen, we will have
to do it without whining.

"Captain Trigger is accountable for the cargo on board this ship.
Naturally he is opposed to our confiscating anything that has been
entrusted to him for safe delivery. He takes a very sensible attitude,
however. He will officially protest against the removal of anything from
the hold of his vessel, but he will not employ force to resist us when
we begin to land stores, foodstuffs and all that sort of thing. He
understands the situation perfectly.

"Now, here is what we will have to do. We must select a site for our
camp,--or town, you may well say,--and we must build upon it without
delay. That is to be our first step. Details will come later. There are
over six hundred of us here. We