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'That's the Jeanne d'Arc,' remarked the captain to me as the ensign fluttered for the third time down the signal halliards in salute to a big white steamer with a yellow funnel, and showing the French tricolor, that was passing us about half a mile away. 'She made her number,' he continued,' but there was no necessity. I'd know her as far as I could see her. In fact, for a very short time I commanded her.'
'Why,' I replied, 'I thought you disliked steam, and would never have anything to do with it?'