Chapter 11 THE TOSS OF A NAPKIN

As music and splendor

Survive not the lamp and the lute,

The heart's echoes render

No song when the spirit is mute-

No songs but sad dirges,

Like the wind through a ruined cell,

Or the mournful surges

That ring the dead seaman's knell.

-Shelley.

Captain Richard Claiborne gave a supper at the Army and Navy Club for ten men