He calls 'em vain oaths, and pounds me; but ef I could say what you said 'baout your pap an' his fixin's, I'd say that 'baout your dollars.

I dunno what was in your pockets when I dried your kit, fer I didn't look to see; but I'd say, using the very same words ez you used jest now, neither me nor dad--an' we was the only two that teched you after you was brought aboard--knows anythin' 'baout the money.

Thet's my say.

Naow ?" The bloodletting had certainly cleared Harvey's brain, and maybe the loneliness of the sea had something to do with it.

"That's all right," he said.