Ye kin take everything she's unloaded.

And it's only doin' the square thing to her to say, she hain't done it out o' no cussedness, but just to satisfy herself, now she's a married woman and past such foolishness.

But that ain't neither here nor there.

The gist of the whole matter is that Spencer Tucker was at the tienda the day after she sailed and after his boat capsized." He then gave a detailed account of the interview, with the unnecessary but truthful minutiae of his class, adding to the particulars already known that the following week he visited the Summit House and was surprised to find that Spencer had never been there, nor had he ever sailed from Monterey.
"But why was this not told to me before ?" said Mrs.Tucker, suddenly.
"Why not at the time?
Why," she demanded almost fiercely, turning from the one to the other, "has this been kept from me ?" "I'll tell ye why," said Patterson, sinking with crushed submission into a chair.

"When I found he wasn't where he ought to be, I got to lookin' elsewhere.