I have been trying to do something with it for Wally, and I'm old fashioned, and behind the time.

It's here and there, and--and, in short, it's as good as nowhere,' said the old man, looking in bewilderment about him.
He had so much the air of a half-witted person who had been hiding his money in a variety of places, and had forgotten where, that the Captain followed his eyes, not without a faint hope that he might remember some few hundred pounds concealed up the chimney, or down in the cellar.

But Solomon Gills knew better than that.
'I'm behind the time altogether, my dear Ned,' said Sol, in resigned despair, 'a long way.

It's no use my lagging on so far behind it.

The stock had better be sold--it's worth more than this debt--and I had better go and die somewhere, on the balance.