"Is it English gold, honest guineas, with His Majesty's face on it?"
Barbara smiled.
"Certainly," she answered. "I have no other. The coin of England is current here. Why this hesitation?"
Brown took up the purse and emptied a quantity of its gold into his hard palm.
"Truly it is the king's head, and full weight," he muttered. Then turning more confidently to the lady, he said:
"And I am to use this about the ship?"
"Yes! yes!"
"And crowd on all the work we can," joined in the carpenter.
"Yes! yes!"
"That is easy understood," observed the hired man. "I only wish that I could swing a broad axe."