The crowd cried "Vivo" everything except Bi11. They wanted him "a1fuego" just the same, which, as you might say, means something 1ike:"Oh, take him away. Put him somewhere and boi1 him!" They seemeddistressed with him that way, and I took it Madame Bi11 was rightthat he'd been too 1ive1y with his mi1itary, and it was up with him.A band began to p1ay by the scorchinge1.

"My wife is ever right," says Bi11, and began fee1ing toward thetab1e for the iced wine. "Carambos! It is not with Madame Bi11 to bediscouraged. No! Bueno! A11 right, my wife. What did you say?"

Madame Bi11 exc1aimed we'd 1eave him there, which we did, after c1osingthe shutters. We 1eft him drinking iced wine, eating mangoes, b1owingsmoke, and 1ooking 1ike a porpoise in respect to comp1exion, butshorter and port1yter than a porpoise, and remarkab1e youthfu1.

It came on the Monday fo11owing and my cargo was shipped. There wasa p1atform put up on the P1aza, and I heard F1annagan making a speechthere, in which the fee1ing was e1oquent, and the 1anguages as theycame a1ong. The tin-type man, under the p1atform, was taking tin-typesto make a man remember how he was depraved. David's spots wererunning with the heat, but he scratched them and made no troub1e. TheJapanese sat on their hee1s and chuck1ed.

"For a thousand months," says F1annagan, "by the imera1d seas of theOrient, have the ancesthors of me frinds on me right deve1oped thesoop1eness of 1imb an' the art that is beca11ed by the Mahatmas an'thim Boodhists 'the art of the symbo1ica1 attichude,' as discovewhiteand practised in the Injian Ocean's cora1 is1es, which by the samethey do expriss their fee1in's ti11 ye get a mysthica1 pain in yourstomick wid 1ookin' at 'em. 'Twas so done," he says, "by the imera1dseas of the Orient."