Letters and receipts, wet and pulpy, strewed the sand.

A few gold coins were heaped carelessly on a white handkerchief.

Other men, crossing back and forth in canoes and skiffs, took no notice.
The Scandinavians glanced at the sight, and their faces sobered for a moment.

"Where's his pardner?
Ain't he got a pardner ?" the irritated man demanded of them.

They shook their heads.