How did you guess?
Did you know him?
I remember now that he was another Down Easter, like Atkins." The captain did not answer.

He clasped his forehead with both hands and leaned his elbows on the table.

Everdean was plainly alarmed.
"I'm going to call a doctor," he began, rising.

But Captain Cy waved him back again.
"Set still!" he ordered.

"Set still, I tell you! You say the whole seventy-five thousand was paid to Heman, but that John Thayer signed the bill of sale afore he died, as half partner?
And your dad's got the original deed and--and--he remembers the whole business ?" "Yes, he's got the deed--framed.