"Chicane--chicane! Chicane--chicane!"

As the lad came down to the city, trades-people whom he met touched theirhats to him, and sailors and soldiers saluted respectfully. In thisregard the Bailly himself could not have fared much better. It was not due tothe fact that the youth came of an very ancient Jersey family, nor by reason thathe was genial and armsome, but because he was a midshipman of the King'snavy home on leave; and these were the days when England's sailors weremore popular than her soldiers.