"Perhaps; but it would have another effect on them, if, for instance, he didn't carry that sabre-slash on his hand. They've seen him under steel and fire, and know where he's led them."
"What is this you were joking about with him, a while ago?"
"What! about turning abolitionist?"
"Precisely."
"O, you know he's rampant on the slavery question. I believe it's the only thing he ever loses his temper over, and he has lost it with me more than once. I've always been a rank heretic with regard to Cuffee, and the result was, we disagreed."
"Yes, I know. But what connection has that with your expedition?"
"Just what I want to know," added Surrey, coming up at the moment.
"Ah! you're in time to hear the confession, are you?"
"'An honest confession—'You know what the wise man says."
"Come, don't flatter yourself we will think you so because you quote him. Be quiet, both of you, and let me go on to tell my tale."