Let the man stay, therefore; even though he called himself MacDonald and swore in Gaelic.

The car could go back to Boston, where, if he were still of the same mind, they would take him West.
With the "Constance," which in his heart of hearts he loathed, departed the last remnant of Cheyne's millionairedom, and he gave himself up to an energetic idleness.

This Gloucester was a new town in a new land, and he purposed to "take it in," as of old he had taken in all the cities from Snohomish to San Diego of that world whence he hailed.

They made money along the crooked street which was half wharf and half ship's store: as a leading professional he wished to learn how the noble game was played.

Men said that four out of every five fish-balls served at New England's Sunday breakfast came from Gloucester, and overwhelmed him with figures in proof--statistics of boats, gear, wharf-frontage, capital invested, salting, packing, factories, insurance, wages, repairs, and profits.