a scramble was made for the coaches and Beth and Patsy, re-entering their staterooms, found their Uncle and the Major still intent upon their interminable game of cribbage.

I did not leave my stateroom on the boat.

Reading nothing except what pertained to their career, they used to speak with consternation of the numerous books that filled Ferragut's stateroom, many of them upon matters which appeared to them most mysterious.

" "Charlotte," said her husband when she reached her stateroom, "I have arrived at an important decision this afternoon.

We had taken staterooms in the clipper ship "Deutschland."

The Englishman who shared my stateroom was an advertising man.

"What with losing that nice, airy bunk and getting that nasty, stuffy stateroom, I don't feel like eating.

He recalled with longing his compact and well-ordered stateroom where there was not a piece of furniture that could escape his glance nor a drawer whose contents he did not know down to the slightest detail.

I once occupied a stateroom next to the steamer's funnel.

How could he, if known to be the dupe of a woman, command those hard, bold men? Humiliated, yet in his heart thankful that no one had yet penetrated the secretas Dr. Lombardo easily might have done, had he laid forcible hands on "Captain Alden"the Master set about the necessary task of himself preparing a stateroom and providing the requisite medical supplies.

"Well, this isn't exactly the quiet life we looked for in the canal zone; is it, Blake?" asked Joe that night as he and his chum were putting their new stateroom to rights.

As Blake pushed back his chair, intending to leave the cabin to seek his own stateroom, he saw, on the floor, a piece of paper.

But my berth was in such a position, that when my own stateroom door was open, as well as the sliding door in question (and my own door was always open on account of the heat), I could see into the after-cabin quite distinctly, and just at that portion of it, too, where were situated the staterooms of Mr. Wyatt.

The Kut Sang was dropping downstream as I locked my stateroom and made my way to the upper-deck, partly to get a last look at Manila, but more for the purpose of considering what I should do in the matter of telling Captain Riggs that I suspected Meeker was not a missionary.

" When he arrived in New York, in his own name, he booked a stateroom on the Ceramic.

You say I may choose any stateroom on the port side?" "They are all unoccupied, except one, used by the steward as a storeroom.

As I dislike close staterooms, I remained in the ladies' saloon night and day, sleeping on a sofa.

What could have been his purpose in thus invading this stateroom?

The captains of the great liners lamented their luxurious staterooms converted into dormitories for the troops, their polished decks that had been turned into stables, their dining-room where they used to sit among people in dress suits and low-neck gowns, which had now to be sprayed with every class of disinfectant in order to repel the invasion of vermin, and the animal odors of so many men and beasts crowded together.

She gave me most of my meals on deck or in the ladies' saloon, and at night she would open the porthole two or three times and air our stateroom; that made the nights endurable.