There is something in this. I advise you to come."
Bassett was laughed at for his pains. It was a huge laugh that went
up (for his telegrams had been made public), and the popular song on
Goliah revived and became more popular than ever. Goliah and Bassett
were cartooned and lampooned unmercifully, the former, as the Old Man
of the Sea, riding on the latter's neck. The laugh tittered and
rippled through clubs and social circles, was restrainedly merry in
the editorial columns, and broke out in loud guffaws in the comic
weeklies. There was a serious side as well, and Bassett's sanity was
gravely questioned by many, and especially by his business
associates.
Bassett had ever been a short-tempered man, and after he sent the
second sheaf of telegrams to his brother captains, and had been
laughed at again, he remained silent. In this second sheaf he had
said: "Come, I implore you. As you value your life, come." He
arranged all his business affairs for an absence, and on the night of
March 2 went on board the Energon.
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