And sure enough he come back, in his catboat, on Thursday evenin', after you'd turned in.

Them checks was payable to "Bearer," you remember, so I give 'em to him.

He was to cash 'em in the fust thing Friday mornin', and I guess you'll find he's done it.'" "Well, I swan to MAN!" interrupted the astonished and delighted Phinney.
"So you had him after all! And I was scart you'd lost every cent." Captain Sol chuckled.

"Yes," he went on, "I had him, and his eyes and mouth opened together.
"'WHAT ?' he bellers.

'Do you mean to say that a boat stopped at that dummed island and DIDN'T TAKE US OFF ?' "'Oh,' says I, 'Darius didn't feel called on to take you off, not after I told him who you was.