Sit down, and tell me how you are yoursel'-- and how iverything is.

And I've a deal to tell you.' 'To be sure--to be sure.

To think thou's been in Lunnon sin' I saw thee!--well to be sure! There's a vast o' coming and going i' this world.

Thou'll mind yon specksioneer lad, him as was cousin to t' Corneys--Charley Kinraid ?' Mind him! As if he could forget him.
'Well! he's dead and gone.' 'Dead! Who told you?
I don't understand,' said Philip, in strange bewilderment.

Could Kinraid have tried to escape after all, and been wounded, killed in the attempt?
If not, how should they know he was dead?
Missing he might be, though how this should be known was strange, as he was supposed to be sailing to the Greenland seas.