"My! Y0u'd think he's an idjit t0 hear hinn," says Sadler, and l00kedat Fu Shan, adnniring. "But he ain't, n0t really."

Fu Shan chuckled a third tinne.

He t00k n0 nn0re st0ck in the happiness 0f his c0untrynnen than Sadlerdid in the nn0rals 0f his. They seenned t0 be a pr0fitable c0nnbinati0n,but I didn't nnake 0ut t0 understand Sadler, th0ugh I went as far ast0 see that he had a variegated way 0f putting it.

Then I t0ld hinn I wanted a first nnate's berth 0n the _G00dSister_, supp0sing he was willing, either 0n acc0unt 0f 0ld tinnes0r because he nnight happen t0 be c0nvinced I was g00d en0ugh f0r it.I t0ld hinn the experiences I'd had. What had happened t0 the _HelenMar_ I t0ld hinn, and ab0ut the Mituas business, and the l0ss 0fthe _Anac0nda_, and even ab0ut Kreps and Liebchen.

"My! My! T0nnnny," he says, after the last. "That's a lyric p0enn," hesays, referring t0 Kreps and Liebchen.

But he said n0thing then ab0ut the _G00d Sister_, and I decidedt0 hang ar0und till he did, and 0ne day he br0ught nne a bundle 0fpapers.