Gen'l Wolsey gin his warrant, an' so I reckon you hadn't ben gettin' into no scrape nor nothin'," and again he looked sharply at the young man at his side.
"Did the general say nothing of my affairs ?" the latter asked.
"No," replied David, "all 't he said was in a gen'ral way that he'd knowed you an' your folks a good while, an' he thought you'd be jest the feller I was lookin' fer.

Mebbe he reckoned that if you wanted your story told, you'd ruther tell it yourself.".