Duty! Some day perhaps I shall be swamped myself along with the craft.

I have escaped till now, owing to not being insured; but if ever my time should come, and you should get clear, promise me, Joe, to see the owners, and tell 'em Hudson did his duty." Here a few tears quenched his noble ardor for a moment.

But he soon recovered, and said, with some little heat, "You have got the bottle again.

I never saw such a fellow to get hold of the bottle.

Come, here's 'Duty to our employers!' And now I'll tell you how we managed with the _Carysbrook,_ and the _Amelia."_ This promise was followed by fresh narratives; in particular, of a vessel he had run upon the Florida reef at night, where wreckers had been retained in advance to look out for signals, and come on board and quarrel on pretense and set fire to the vessel, insured at thrice her value.
Hudson got quite excited with the memory of these exploits, and told each successive feat louder and louder.
But now it was Wylie's turn.