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 'I certainly got to know that man, Mamma!' Poor woman, she was already about gone even that early, and she couldn't take much notice. But you aren't the only well-known man on this boat."

"No," Mr. Wackstle admitted, laughing modestly. "There's a dozen bigger celebrities aboard than I claim to be."

"Well, I won't say bigger," the genial Tinker went on, "but there certainly are others. Take James T. Weatheright, for instance; he's the best-known man in the whole State of New York, I expect. Weatheright's Worsteds are practically household goods all over the world. Then there's T. H. Smith, president of the G. L. and W.; Harold M. Wilson, ex-chairman of the Board of the Western Industrial Corporation; Thomas Swingey, of Swingey Brothers, Incorporated; there's both the Holebrooks of the Northwestern Trust; there's Judge Mastin, ex-general counsel for the Roanoke; J. Q. A. McLean, of the Chicago Milling Company—well, talk about an all-star aggregation, why, when you think of what's represented by a passenger list like that you almost wonder how the United States can go on running with these men out here on the ocean!"

His new friend, Wackstle, chuckled. "Well, I