"Do you know what you're saying?"
"Perfectly."
"You must be crazy."
"I think I am. This came this morning."
The unhappy Harnash held out the telegram.
"Well," said Maynard, reading it over quickly. "That's a bad job, of course, but the Susquehanna is fully insured. It's unfortunate about the men, and the Russians have been cabling us for that shipment of munitions and war material, but what's this got to do with Beekman?"
"He was on the burned ship."
"What!"
"Her mate, Woywod, was a boyhood friend of mine. I told him I loved your daughter and she loved me--"
"Oh, it's got that far, has it?"