Well, when she came to the door
that morning, I told her so, and that I was stone-
broke; and she took me right in, and fetched out the
pie." She clothed him, taught him, and had him to sea
again in better shape, welcomed him to her hearth on
his return from every cruise, and when she died
bequeathed him her possessions. "She was a good old
girl," he would say; "I tell you, Mr. Dodd, it was a
queer thing to see me and the old lady talking a
PASEAR in the garden, and the old man scowling at us
over the pickets. She lived right next door to the old
man, and I guess that's just what took me there. I
wanted him to know that I was badly beat, you see, and
would rather go to the devil than to him. What made
the dig harder, he had quarrelled with the old lady
about me and the orchard: I guess that made him rage.
Yes, I was a beast when I was young; but I was always
pretty good to the old lady." Since then he had
prospered, not uneventfully, in his profession; the old
lady's money had fallen in during the voyage of the
GLEANER, and he was now, as soon as the smoke of that
engagement cleared away, secure of his ship.
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