"Partial? By Jove, I wish I could be! We had a very good specimen the other day in the person of that rascally skipper of the Greek tramp. The stalwarts of ancient Greece would turn in their graves could they but realize to what depths their so-called descendants have fallen. Well, Kenwyn, what is it now? Another purposeless message?" "I think not, sir," replied the second officer, handing his chief the latest "wireless" received on board. This time, instead of executing a dance, Captain Restronguet very nearly lost his temper. "That rogue von Harburg has done me very neatly this time, Hythe!" he exclaimed. "He never was in the Black Sea, that’s my belief. Here’s a message announcing that the ’Vorwartz’ has passed through the Suez Canal." "Surely that’s impossible!" "Well, then, there’s the message. It is from an exceptionally trustworthy agent. I say, Mr. Kenwyn, just reply, will you? And ask to be kept in touch with events." "Very good, sir," replied the second officer, withdrawing. "I am anxious to know how a submarine could pass through the Canal without being detected and stopped," remarked the sub, who entertained grave doubts as to the authenticity of the wireless message, especially after the "Imperator Pavel" affair. "So am I, Mr. Hythe," rejoined Captain Restronguet, who had now recovered his customary coolness of mind. "So am I, since where the ’Vorwartz’ can go the ’Aphrodite can go also." "You mean to traverse the Suez Canal?" "By fair means, or failing that by foul. Otherwise it would mean that we have to circumnavigate the African Continent, and in the time we were so occupied what would Karl von Harburg be doing?" Within twenty minutes of the receipt of the momentous news the "Aphrodite" was abreast of the classic Isle of Tenedos, bound for Port Said. All the while she had remained in the Dardanelles, although within a few miles of the seaport of Gallipoli, she had refrained from giving any signs of her presence. But at the moment of departure Captain Restronguet could not resist leaving his card in the shape of one of his green and white buoys on which were painted his customary compliments. During the run across from Gallipoli to Port Said a complete text of Karl von Harburg’s feat, as reported in the _Egyptian Monitor_, was transmitted by Captain Restronguet’s agent for the information of his employer. It was indeed a daring coup on the part of the German renegade.