Don't look at me like that.

_I_ ain't said nothin'.

Why, a spell ago, at the boardin' house, I--" He told of the meal at the perfect boarding house where Miss Dawes championed his friend's cause.

Also of the conversation which followed, and his own part in it.

Captain Cy paced the floor.
"I wouldn't have her come so often, Cy," pleaded Asaph.