Jim sits at the window of his hotel room just before dawn. He sees a field of paper flowers on the morning tide. Jim is dressed in his school uniform and ready for school. Outside the window he also sees the American and British gunboats U.S.S. Wake and the H.M.S. Petrel and their officers returning to their ships from a night of parties. He also notices a new gunboat - Japanese - anchored nearby. Jim notices a signal light flashing from the Japanese gunboat to the cruiser Idzumo anchored down river at the Japanese consulate.
Jim dislikes the funeral paper flower regattas. He watches as Japanese marines in a launch heading for the Wake and two picket boats from the Idzumo with 50 marines. The three craft meet in the center of.....
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