This must be done first of all." "Graves hinted there wa'n't any debts, to amount to anything." "So far as we can see, there are none, except a few trifling bills." "Yes, yes.

Hum!" Captain Elisha put down his coffee spoon and seemed to be thinking.

He shook his head.
"You appear to be puzzled about something," observed the lawyer, who was watching him intently.
"I am.

I was puzzled afore I left home, and I'm just as puzzled now." "What puzzles you?
if I may ask." "Everything.

And, if you'll excuse my sayin' so, Mr.Sylvester, I guess it puzzles you, too." He returned his host's look.