Ralph Henry Barbour

“ As it is now Heligoland gives her a fine anchorage for warships, a base for submarines and airships and Zeppelins and destroyers and a signal outpost. They've got searchlights on Heligoland, they say, that'll pick up a dory twenty miles away! Talk about your soft snaps! Germany's got the softest ever. She ought to include Lord Salisbury in her prayers every night: 'God bless Lord Salisbury for letting us have Heligoland!'"
"I'd love to see it," mused Nelson.
"Well, you aren't likely to, I guess. If the Gyandotte started in toward that old rock I'd hand in my papers and fall overboard! ”

“ All that day the mist held and hid everything a mile or so distant, and the lookouts never kept their eyes peeled any more thoroughly than they did while the line of ships steamed on toward the north. ”

“ One might have thought that the American and British ships had made an appointment at Christiansand merely to enjoy an uninterrupted palaver. The northern sunlight made gay with fluttering bunting, small boats crossed from ship to ship and the harbor had a most holiday appearance. On shore, Limie "gobs" and American tars fraternized and swapped yarns and rode on the tram cars or in carriages and saw the sights very happily. ”