It is to you I speak, and you know I speak the truth.

Here is a ship, in which, for certain reasons known to yourself, the captain is under the mate." "Well, sir," said Wylie good-humoredly, "it is no use trying to deceive a gentleman like you.

Our skipper is an excellent seaman, but he has got a fault." Then Wylie imitated, with his hand, the action of a person filling his glass.
"And you are here to keep him sober, eh ?" Wylie nodded.
"Then why do you ply him with liquor ?" "I don't, sir." "You do.

I have seen you do it a dozen times.

And last night you took rum into his room, and made him so drunk, he would have died where he lay if I had not loosed his handkerchief." "I am sorry to hear that, sir; but he was sober when I left him.