"There is at least one thing in particular that I don't know, and that is why you call me doctor and professor, Flix. I am not a pedant, and if you call me by such names, I shall give you the highest-sounding title I can find," replied Louis, rather tartly.
"I won't do it then; I didn't mean to vex you."
"You didn't vex me; but you talk to me as though I set myself up for a very learned or a very pretentious fellow. Barbers and bootblacks call themselves professors in these days; and there is no honor in the title unless a man is really a graduate of a college, and is what the name implies. I don't know what Palmones means, and it may be the proper name of some Spanish don."
"The boat is close aboard of us," said Scott, coming out of the pilot-house.
"And we are in for an advinture," chuckled Felix.
"I don't see any adventure yet," added Louis.
"Steamer, ahoy!" shouted a man in the bow of the boat.
"Answer him, Scott," said Louis.
"En el vapor!" shouted one in the stern-sheets of the craft, as though he thought the steamer's people might not understand English.
"In the boat!" replied the pilot.