... Excellency may well offer you as an appeasement to his anger. But take comfort; he will order your hasty departure from the world with regret; he is a kindly man at heart. Woe! lamented Wang, that I should have believed reports which were untrue. Alas ...

... which an epic mystery, a world-shaker of its kind, was to be written, and with a score of variations. Fraser Trenholme and Co. intended naming the vessel James B. Matthews, but on the outbreak of the Civil War they could find no use for her, and left her ...