If she's got this assignment of the Doctor's property that she speaks of in her letter, as collateral security, and it's all regular, and she--so to speak--steps into Dr.West's place, by G-d, sir, we owe HIM about three millions, and we've got to settle with HER--and that's all about it.

You've dropped a little bomb-shell in here, Captain, and the splinters are flying around as far as San Francisco, now.

I confess it beats me regularly.

I always thought the old man was a little keen over there at the casa--but she was a woman, and he was a man for all his sixty years, and THAT combination I never thought of.

I only wonder she hadn't gobbled him up before." Captain Carroll's face betrayed no trace of the bewilderment and satisfaction at this news of which he had been the unconscious bearer, nor of resentment at the coarseness of its translation.
"There does not seem to be any memorandum of this assignment," continued Prince, turning over the papers.
"Have you looked here ?" said Carroll, taking up the packet of letters.
"No--they seem to me some private letters she refers to in this letter, and that she wants back again." "Let us see," said Carroll, untying the packet.