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122 want to get square with those Dons, as they call them, and with Captain Kenny."

The weather was of the finest, and day after day passed quickly, as the Cardigan skimmed over the sea on her northwest course. As we sat on the deck in our camp-chairs I wondered what would happen when we got to Hong Kong, and if trouble would really come between Spain and the United States because of the destruction of the Maine and the war in Cuba. Little did I dream of all the fierce fighting that was so close at hand, and of the parts Dan and I were to play in the coming contest.