i am about a good deal better than some of the rest of you you are all ready to go tom but if you don t have some one to lay out the work for you you couldn t do a thing that s so i don t ask any place or power for myself but i don t want to see the thing as it was at when you were going off so finely palace and cottage or do you mean to say that was my fault demanded i don t care whose fault it was the affair was a failure you were going into your boat while was in his berth below don t fight about it interposed i don t want to fight and don t intend to do so continued little but i want this business better managed than it was before you snapped at me because i said something to you don t know what you had no right to speak to him without letting some of us know it persisted all right i m under censure and i submit said little you are the chief go ahead and put the thing through you needn t get mad about it i don t intend to get mad tell me what to do and i ll do it the coast will be clear to night if you let this chance slip by you will never go take my word for that i don t see how we are to get the knights on board of the added after he had considered the matter a little do you know what boats are to be sent for the s fellows i don t replied as little did not afford the information do you monkey i do i have a friend at court who tells me what i want to know � s said no matter who it is i got the order just as it was given by the captain to the first lieutenant young america in france and i i what boats are they the s the first the professors and the second i don t see that this arrangement will help our plan any the knights are scattered in all these boats you are a louis xiii and you need a laughed little you have the problem all you have to do is to solve it given thirty knights of the golden in four boats to get them all into the same boat when only eight of them are to be found in any single boat i did not intend to do the thing in this way replied vexed at the of his companion did you intend to do the thing in any way mr commander of the order of course i did all right then we will obey orders as knights sir tom what is your plan if you don t object to stating it i don t object to stating it though i have not fully made it up yet added of course such an affair as this can t be carried out without a great deal of contrivance you can t tell beforehand how things are going to be and what you do is liable to go wrong we know all that interposed little impatiently but in this case we do know how things are going to be the will be left to night with no one on board of her but the cook and two i was going to tell you my plan but if you don t want to hear it i don t care about telling it replied rather palace and cottage or let us know what it is said we are going to paris monday i believe monday night added little who seemed to know everybody s plans just so and the darker the better one of these railway carriages here has about four which seat six or eight each we must contrive it so as to have all the knights get into the last carriage by hurrying up a little we can easily manage that but if we happen to get two or three other fellows in it won t much matter we can give them the slip what do you think of that plan asked who seemed to think he had invented a big idea i don t see through it yet answered little too coldly to please the commander of the expedition don t you well you are not so sharp as i thought you were sneered i see what you mean plainly enough but i want to hear the whole plan before i give an opinion what do i mean inquired the leader in you intend to the car and be left behind of course what in the station no after you get a mile or two out of the city i should do it when we are in some lonely place on the road then we can just make our way back to go on board the and put to sea without any delay that s what you mean but there are some trifling obstacles suggested little in the first place we shall all be locked into the young america in france and locked in what do we care for that isn t there a window big enough for a man to get out to say nothing of a boy added contemptuously when we were going from to i got out of the window on one side went over the top of the carriage and came in again at the window on the other side just for the fun of it there may be no difficulty about that but if the last carriage should be a mail car or something of that sort no matter if it is we can break up the train and when it stops all we have to do is to get out and make tracks for all right grant 