"I want it to shoot a skunk!"
"A skunk! Do you think you're back on the farm?"
"No, but just the same I'd like to go gunning with grandpap's old scatter gun."
"I wish we had a doctor on board, Herc. Any fellow who can go around seeing skunks——"
"Ought to shoot 'em on sight," muttered Herc belligerently. "Well, Ned, this was a skunk I saw, all right, all right! And what do you think his name was?"
Without waiting for a reply, Herc rushed on, "Kenworth! He'd been listening to every word we were saying!"
[CHAPTER XII.]
SAKI—STEWARD.