You see, Mr.Williams,' I says, 'Darius Baker was my partner in that wheat speculation I was tellin' you about.'" The Captain drew a long breath and re-lit his cigar, which had gone out.
His friend pounded the settee ecstatically.
"There!" he cried.

"I knew the name 'Darius Baker' wa'n't so strange to me.

When was you and him in partners, Sol ?" "Oh, 'way back in the old days, afore I went to sea at all, and afore mother died.

You wouldn't remember much about it.

Mother and I was livin' in Trumet then and our house here was shut up.