"No, I haven't SEEN a ghost.

There! there! don't mind me.

I ain't real well to-day, I guess." He smiled crookedly.
"Don't you want to hear about my vote-grabbin' cruise ?" asked Tidditt.
"I was flatterin' myself you'd be tickled to hear I'd done so well.

Why, even Marcellus Parker says he may vote for you--if he makes up his mind that way." Marcellus was a next-door neighbor of Alonzo Snow's.

But Captain Cy didn't seem to care.
"Hey ?" he murmured.