"All right; he will leave us in a day or two," replied the purser, with a significant smile, as though the arrangement just suited him. "How much money have you, Beckwith?"
"I drew twenty pounds in St. Petersburg the other day, and I changed my money in Stockholm into Russian paper. I have nearly two hundred rubles."
"Is that all you have?"
"I thought that was a pretty big pile."
"I have a letter of credit for a hundred pounds, upon which I can draw in any city of Europe," added the purser.
"Well, I can get more when I write for it."
"You had better write, then, for you haven't enough left to last you three weeks."
"I don't know where we are going next," said Beckwith.
"The squadron is going to Hamburg, I believe, and from there on a long cruise, which may use up five or six weeks."