Where is Nicholas Ven Vert now ?" "Nicholas Van Vert?
He happened to be at St.Kitts last year when the yellow fever broke out there, and was attacked with it the day after he reached home, and lived only three days." "Indeed! Indeed! Well, we should all be prepared for whatever may happen! How is old Captain Wagner as hale and hearty as ever ?" "The old man slipped and fell over a precipice on the north side of the island a few weeks ago, and broke his neck." "Good Lord! What a terrible mortality among my best friends in Saba! I am almost afraid to inquire after my old flame, Julia Hoffner.

What has become of her ?" While I was considering in what way I should dispose of the fair and interesting Julia, a grinning darkey, who had approached the wharf in great haste, shouted, "Captain Brown, massa mate wants you on board, right off, directly" I felt grateful to the dark-complexioned youth for the seasonable interruption, and secretly resolved that if it should ever be in my power to do him a good turn, I would do it.

Unfortunately for him, I never saw him more.
Captain Brown seemed annoyed at the summons, and turning to me, said, "I suppose I must go, John, but I'll be back in a minute.

It's a real treat to talk to a Saba man.

But you have told me some sad news don't go away." And the inquisitive gentleman walked off, looking as sad and forlorn as if he had really "lost all his friends," and leaving me half dead with terror lest my falsehoods should be detected, and perspiring with remorse at having made such a rectangular deviation from the strict line of truth.
I breathed more freely.