Then he said-- "I hope to goodness there's nothing in it.

Is it a fact about Widow Wisdom's boat ?" "Yes; my young brother was with Rollitt that day, and told me about it as a secret.

But as it's out now, there's no good keeping it." "Dangle has a spite against Rollitt.

If any one else had told you this, there might have been something in it." "And if it had been any one but Rollitt bought the boat, it would have been nothing.

But he's so frightfully poor.