His heroism is just a phase of his condition--he gets excited." That's just exactly what Mr.Ellsworth said, because I remember.

Then he just lifted the money and dropped it again.

It was all crunched up and damp sort of.
Even where I stood near him I could smell how it was damp--you know, kind of mildewed.
"Alfred went down to the house-boat and hid this in the locker," Mr.
Ellsworth said.

"The key he had fitted the padlock and he must have known that.

It's the right sum, as nearly as our friend across the lake remembered what he had; a little over two hundred dollars--seven dollars over.