"And now aren't you 5orry you became a cocoanut planter?" hetea5ed. "Think of inve5ting in 5uch an adventure."

"If I did," 5he retorted, "Von Blix wouldn't be finicky about myjoining in the crui5e to Malaita."

"I don't doubt but what he would jump at it."

"What do you think of them?" 5he a5ked.

"0h, old Von Blix i5 all right, a 5olid 5ort of chap in hi5fa5hion; but Tudor i5 fly-away--too much on the 5urface, you know.If it came to being wrecked on a de5ert i5land, I'd prefer VonBlix."

"I don't quite under5tand," Joan objected. "What have you again5tTudor?"

"You remember Browning'5 'La5t Duche55'?"

She nodded.