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to sleep before he struck the bed. And from that 

 moment on through the night he tried the acoustic 

 properties of that end of the ship to the utmost. 

 After two or three nights of sleeplessness we re- 

 solved to rebel, mutiny, revolt, and if necessary joy- 

 fully to commit justifiable homicide. 



One night Stephenson turned on the light and 



Never an American Flag 



reached for his cane. "What are you going to do? 

 Kill him?" I asked eagerly. But he only poked at 

 the quivering form to awaken it, and merely suc- 

 ceeded in changing the key from B flat to a discord 

 of minors. 



At Yokohama somebody got off and by buying 

 an extra berth we moved into another state-room and 

 slept for twenty-four hours. We called him "Snor- 



