"Certainly. I shall wire him at once. By the way, where are you boys living?"
"We have a room at 33 Place de la Concorde, sir. We have not slept there," added Dan, with slightly heightened color; "but we hope to do so to-night."
Bidding Mr. Hamlin good-bye, the Battleship Boys started away for their lodgings. At about that time another gentleman called at the office of the prefect. The card that he send in read, "Guillermo Martinez, Ambassador."
He was the Spanish ambassador to France.
Señor Martinez's greeting was most cordial, but the ambassador lost no time in stating the object of his visit.
"You have two young men here, I believe, Monsieur—young men who are said to have robbed or attempted to rob two women in the Bois de Boulogne last evening?"
"Two young men were arrested," he replied.
"They were sailors?"
"I believe they are."
"English sailors?"