The partition was so thin that their voices reached me quite distinctly, and I soon found that they were disputing about something.

From the day when, on board ship, Bailey had told me how they had entrapped me simply for the money to which I was entitled, there had never been any allusion made, in my presence, to the profit they expected to make of me.

I could hear now, however, as their voices grew louder, that this was the cause of their dispute.

I caught only broken sentences, and never knew how the quarrel ended, for in the morning Bailey was gone, and I had learned already that it was useless to question Christian.

I had written from Quebec to my father.
The only answer I received was through his solicitor, who formally made over to me all my mother's fortune; but, of course, this did not happen until some weeks after our arrival at Moose Island.
"We remained three or four days at the tavern, and then removed to the island, where a small log-house had been got ready for me.