'You bet you did, and you bet that I can see you doing it! By God, you're a man, and you can say I said so.' 'Too good of you, I'm sure,' said Attwater.
'Did you--did you ever have crime here ?' asked Herrick, breaking his silence with a pungent voice.
'Yes,' said Attwater, 'we did.' 'And how did you handle that, sir ?' cried the eager captain.
'Well, you see, it was a queer case,' replied Attwater, 'it was a case that would have puzzled Solomon.

Shall I tell it you?
yes ?' The captain rapturously accepted.
'Well,' drawled Attwater, 'here is what it was.

I dare say you know two types of natives, which may be called the obsequious and the sullen?
Well, one had them, the types themselves, detected in the fact; and one had them together.

Obsequiousness ran out of the first like wine out of a bottle, sullenness congested in the second.

Obsequiousness was all smiles; he ran to catch your eye, he loved to gabble; and he had about a dozen words of beach English, and an eighth-of-an-inch veneer of Christianity.