Drastic orders now had to be issued. As the ship, went steaming on the officer wondered what shape the next trickery would take. Possibly they might now try to poison him He accordingly declined to eat thing cooked by the Germa er quitted the bridge or the chart room, We had supplied him with a chart—the only one aboard Calgarian—biscuits, butter, and marmalade, so that meals and navigation went on simultaneously on the chart-table, then he would return to the bridge.
The only creature to be trusted among the Germans was the ship's cat. Even that animal "did him down" in the end. On approaching the dangerous Nova Scotian coast, the officer went to consult his chart. Judge of his annoyance on finding that the cat had walked through a saucer of marmalade; and then all over the precious chart.
"Heaven alone knows," he said afterwards, "how I ever got to Halifax through that sticky sea of marmalady.
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