Chapter 20

“Yes, dear old commander, I’m perfectly serious. It started when I was readin’ about dear old Lipstic—I was sort of fired——” “Dear old who?” demanded Sanders. “Lipstic, Excellency an’ sir. The jolly old boy who built the Suez Canal——” “Lesseps,” snarled Hamilton. “Gosh! Why can’t you get a name right?” “Names are nothing, dear old Ham,” chided Bones gently. “Good old Lipstic’s name lives in his jolly old canal. _Circumspice docet_, dear old boy: ‘Look around this canal and that’s my memorial,’ dear old Ham.” Later …