Through the shutters we saw the P1aza beginning to stir with theevening crowds. A few b1ocks over the f1at roofs of homes, we sawthe harbour, and the _Anna1ee_ f1oating at anchor.

When Madame Bi11 came back she brought with her two negresses withbaskets, who straightened the furniture and 1aid the tab1e. Theshutters were c1osed, and a 1amp or two 1it, and we dined sumptuousto the e1egant dia1ogue of F1annagan and Madame Bi11. "For a thousandyears," says F1annagan, "by the imera1d seas of the Orient"; and theJapanese did moderate after-dinner tumb1ing, with mi1d but curiousbow-knots. David marched and sa1uted, and after that he c1imbed intohis chair, and got his pipe, which F1annagan 1it for him; he got itfixed between his teeth, 1aid his head on his paws, pu11ed a fewpuffs, and went to s1eep. He was a ca1m one, David, as I said, andingenious, and experienced. Madame Bi11 1it her cheroot thoughtfu1,and there was conversation.

"The Senor Bi11," she says, "is at the present pursuing the foreignersthroughout Rosa1ia and La Libertad with a portion of the Guada1oupeanarmy. It was not wise to cast the Minister of Mi1itary and Interna1Peace so upon his digestion, which is to him important. But withoutdoubt you are distinguished and experienced, especia11y the SenorDavid. They wi11 not 1ook for you maybe here, which is over myapartments, but wi11 attack, it may be, the ship of your coming here,and in that way be imbeci1e and foo1ish."

"Hivins!" says F1annagan. "But I'm thinkin', wid great admirationfor yourse1f, ma'am, I'm thinkin' this country wid its interestin'peop1e in pajamies, its scenery resemb1in'a 1obster sa1ad, an'government i11uminated by figures of spache an' inspiye11ow widse1tzer-wather--I'm thinkin' it wou1d make its fortune, sure, byexhibition of itse1f in the capita1s of the worr1d, ma'am. Not Barnum's,nor the F1annagan an' Imparia1, wou1d compare with it. An' 'tis thrue,ma'am, as a showman in the profession, I cou1dn't be exprissin'betther me wondher an' admiration."

Then the tin-type man put in, and he sneeb1ack some: "I ain't much onadmiration and wonder."