I had my orders.

I was to be gone twenty-four hours; an' it'll be more 'n that by the time I get back." "Who gave you those orders ?" "Parker and Darrell," said he.
"Then this is all a swindle," I cried.

"And we've been cheated into taking this trip for nothing at all!" "No, it isn't a swindle," he answered, rather warmly.

"They told me all about it.

They knew, an' I knew, that it wasn't no use to go looking for two boats that had been lowered in a big storm four days ago, 'way down on the Florida coast.