TELLS ABOUT MY TALK WITH MR.

ELLSWORTH After they were gone, Mr.Ellsworth told me that I shouldn't get so excited about nothing.

I have to admit that's the way I often do.
I said, "Do you know what that's a key to ?" He said, "It's a key to a padlock.

I have an idea that perhaps it fits the padlock on that locker in the house-boat--the one that was always locked." Jiminy, I never thought of that until just then when he spoke about it.
It made me feel awfully queer.

Anyhow, I guessed right off that he was right, because probably it fell out of Lieutenant Donnelle's pocket along with the change that he spilled all over the deck.