"Oh, nothing.

I don't want to frighten you.

I know you're doing it from a sense of duty.

But I've been there to the Navigator Islands, and I'm acquainted with the people's little ways, and I--well, I--I--the fact is, you see, that--well, sooner'n disguise the truth, I don't mind telling you straight out that the last day I was there the folks et one of my legs--sawed it off an' et it.

Now you can see how things are yourself.