Do you think Captain Benson will take me into the company ?" "Perhaps he will." "Ask him--will you?
You needn't say I'm here, you know." "But what will your father say ?" "I don't care what he says." Tom thought, if Fred didn't care, he needn't, and going aft, he found the captain, and proposed to him the question.
"Take him--yes.

We'll teach him loyalty and patriotism, and before his time is out, we will make him an abolitionist," replied Captain Benson.
"What will his father say ?" "His father doesn't know anything about it.

Fred ran away, and followed the company into the city." "Squire Pemberton is a traitor, and I believe the army will be the best school in the world for his son," added the captain.

"It will be better for him to be with us than to be at home.

If it was the son of any other man in Pinchbrook, I wouldn't take him without the consent of his father; as it is, I feel perfectly justified in accepting him." Tom hastened to the forward deck to report the success of his mission.