There are plenty of us down here, just now.

But, up to lately, nothing's been accomplished.

That's why they sent me.

They knew I'd had plenty of experience in this region." "Here?
In Florida?
But--" "I spent all my vacations at my grandfather's place, below Coconut Grove, when I was in school and in college and for a while afterward, and I know this coast and the keys as well as any outsider can,--even if I was silly enough to let my scow run into a reef to-night, that wasn't here in my day.

They sent me to take charge of the job and to straighten out its mixups and to try to win where the others had bungled.