You told his Majesty that Tristram Salt owned large estates.

Is the boy's father aware of this ?" Again he paused for an answer, but none came.
"These estates are administered under trust, I presume.

Who are the legal trustees ?" "I am," Captain Jemmy replied, with a sudden effort.
"You alone ?" Captain Jemmy, after struggling for a moment with the wrath in his throat, answered: "I refuse to say." "Well, well, the affair seems to need some explanation, but doubtless admits of a very good one.

It is none of my business, and I do not ask you to satisfy me.

But I cannot help thinking that Roderick Salt will be hardly more astonished to find that his son is a man of large estates than disposed to make inquiries." "What do you mean, my lord ?" "I mean that, as father and son happen at this moment to lie aboard the same vessel, the _Good Intent_--" The chair which Captain Barker had been grasping and tilting impatiently fell to the floor with a crash.
"-- I foresee a scene of happy recognition and mutual explanations.
We will suppose the father to learn the truth before to-morrow's punishment is inflicted.