“Wish navigation was as automatic,” was Captain Lester’s contribution.

“Or portrait painting,” laughed Rita Wainwright with a significant glance at Mr. Deacon.

“Or musical criticism,” Lute remarked, with no glance at all, but with a pointedness of present company that brought from O’Hay:

“Or just being a charming young woman.”

“What price for the outfit?” Jeremy Braxton asked.

“Right now, we could manufacture and lay down, at a proper profit, for five hundred. If the thing came into general use, with up to date, large-scale factory methods, three hundred. But say five hundred. And write off fifteen per cent,