Ef they _did_ hev it!" he added slowly.

"I never more'n half believed none o' them yarns; but Father, he thought _he_ hed it, an' no mistake.

'D'ye think I was five years coastin' round Brazil for nothin' ?' he says.

'There's di'monds in Brazil,' he says, 'whole mines of 'em; an' there's _some_ di'monds _out_ o' Brazil too;' and then he'd wink, and laugh out hearty, the way he used.

He was always laughin', Father was.