Caroline intends to use her own allowance, I s'pose.

Well, let her think she will, if 'twill please her.

But when it comes to the settlement, call on me.

Give her any reason you want to; say a--er--wealthy friend of the family come to life all at once and couldn't sleep nights unless he paid the costs." "But there isn't any such friend, is there, Captain Warren?
Other than yourself, I mean ?" Captain Elisha grinned in appreciation of a private joke.

"There is somebody else," he admitted, "who'll pay a share, anyhow.