"Are you sure, Jones?"
"I picked up both pieces of the gun and looked at them closely."
"Perhaps your seeing J.B. on the gun gave rise to your other reflections."
"Not at all; the gun came last, not first."
"What you are telling me is very remarkable," said the Captain; "you almost make me believe that you are right in saying that your name is Jones Berwick. However, J.B. is no uncommon combination of initials. Suppose Lieutenant Barnwell had found the gun."
"If he had found J.G.B. on it, he would have wondered," said I.
"True; but do you know that J.G.B. is many times more difficult than J.B.?"
"No, Captain; I hardly think so; these are the days of three initials."
"Yes, you are right in that," he said.
"And I know I am right about my name." said I.