"He was staying in the Imperial Hotel and had a bill of Y.400 or Y. 500, and was getting desperate Colonel Burnett promised to try to jet him on a transport but as none }was due in the immediate future, he decided to stow. away on the McKinley. Leaving his baggage behind, he took his small bag and went abroad and mingled with the passengers while the ship was getting under way.
"Being well dressed and mingling with the other passengers, he naturally wasn't suspected, and when well outside, with no chance of being sent back he gave himself up.
"Captain Lustie, who commands the President McKinley, served in the United States Navy as a com manding officer and was therefore familiar with discharge papers. He pronounced them all right and turned Reynold over to the first officer. He was put to work with the crew.
The purser provided him with dungarees and working shoes and he proved himself an excellent worker
much so that the officers would have liked to have kept him aboard.
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