"Well now, it wasn't Providence this time. I was running the arrangements myself."
"How do you mean?"
"Oh, I hadn't ever seen the gentleman before. I was at the next table, with my back to you the whole time he was telling about it. I saw my chance, and slipped out and fetched the two waiters with me and offered to give them a commission out of what I could get out of the Captain if they would do a quarrel act with me and give me an opening. So, then, after a minute or two I straggled back, and you know the rest of it as well as I do."
Mark Twain.
(To be Continued.)
FOOTNOTES:
[18] This was tried. I well remember it.—M. T., October, '06.
[19] Can this be correct? I think there must be some mistake.—M. T.