"I didn't exactly seem to catch that, somehow or 'nother." Judge Baxter turned to the Captain.
"You understood me, didn't you, Captain Gould ?" he asked.
Shadrach shook his head.
"Why--why, no," he stammered; "it didn't seem to soak in, somehow.
Cal'late my head must have stopped goin'; maybe the shock I had a spell ago broke the mainspring.

All I seem to be real sartin of just now is that the Campbells are comin'.

What was it you said ?" "I said that Captain Marcellus Hall has left whatever property he owned, after his creditors are satisfied, to his stepdaughter.

He has left it in trust until she becomes of age.

And he asks you two to accept that trust and the care of the child.