Boss! I'll have you to know that no livin' man bosses me." "All right! I didn't mean to stir you up, Zebedee.

But from things Cap'n Daniels has said I gathered that he was runnin' the committee.

And, as I'm a friend of Mr.Ellery, it--" "Friend! Well, so'm I, ain't I?
If you ever hear of Daniels tryin' any tricks against the minister, you send for me, that's all.

I'LL show him.
Boss! Humph!" The wily Keziah alighted at the parsonage gate with the feeling that she had sown seed in fertile ground.

She was quite aware of Captain Zeb's jealousy of the great Daniels.