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Monsieur Leon Crotieres, member of the Académie Francais, and perhaps the most distinguished of modern European historians, paused in his labours and looked downwards from the grounds of his villa into the Bay of Garoupe. He pointed to a very graceful thirty-ton yacht below which was flying the flags of France and the United States.
"My task," he said to his wife, who was also his secretary, "would be an easier one if that boat, like the singing barge of Ulysses, could talk."