The next morning the Exchange, all the exchanges, the Lloyds', the bourses, were crowded from an early hour, but subdued: no news, not a word; but still--there was certainty: for had the _Kaiser_ and her wireless been merely disabled, she would undoubtedly by now have been reported: she had foundered. _Foundered!_--in the serenest weather in which ship ever crossed the water.... But at eleven the truth came: for the brig which had lain becalmed near the _Boodah_ at the moment of the tragedy, and now was nearer England, had flashed the news: “many of the Kaiser's passengers mutilated, many drowned”. Death, then, was in the pottage of Life; the air tainted with specks of blood.... That day Man, as it were, rent his garments, sitting in ashes, and to Heaven sent up a howl of fear, of anguish, and of hissing hate. Those who lacked the intelligence to feel the fear, felt the hate: every girl, the shirt-maker, the shopman, feeling himself robbed of his very own; the Duke in the centre of his oak-lands felt it; the burglar, the junk-dweller of the Yangtse, the pariah of the Hugli. Lamentation and a voice in Ramah, wail on wail. For God had given the sea to man, and it had been seized by a devil. God had also given the shore; and it, too, had been seized: but, as that had been before their birth, they had not observed it--in such a numb somnambulism shambles humanity. But the theft of the sea was new and flagrant, it, and the air, being all that had remained: and a roar for vengeance--sharp, and rolled in blood--rose from the throat of man. Accordingly, when Mr. C. P. Stickney during the afternoon wired for information to the White House, he received the reply: “Encourage calm on 'Change. Government in touch with Europe. Great naval activity. Await good news, seven P.M.” It was about seven P.M. that what the White House would have considered specially good news occurred: for the _Boodah_ then telegraphed through to O'Hara's _Mahomet_ at the Straits: “B. 7651. Begins. After to-morrow (Monday) you begin taxation, as per Order B., 7315, of 2nd inst. But if warships desire to pass out, (not in), permit, till further order. Richard. Ends”. Which meant that if any Power, or Powers, desired to concentrate force upon the attack of any island, the Lord of the Sea granted them facilities. The _Kaiser_ passengers had now been sent off to New York, the _Boodah's_ halls seemed the home of desolation; and, as the night advanced, Hogarth and Loveday walked on the roof: for they could find no rest, the sky without moon or star, the sea making of three sides of the _Boodah_ a roaring reef, the wind blowing cold, they two wrapped to the nose in oilskins with sou'-westers, lashed by rages of rain and spray.