"No animosity, Al?" he added.
"Not the slightest in the world, my dear fellow," replied Van Hoosen.
Captain Cannon and Mr. Twinkle walked out of the room together, fully determined to return to England by the next steamer.
As they went, Alfred sung, the others joining in the chorus:
"We'll settle on the banks
Of the lovely Ohio,
Through the wild woods we'll wend
As we hunt the buffalo"
And the refrain rung in their ears all the way to the depot:
"As we hunt the buff-a-lo."
[CHAPTER XIV.]
MASTER AND SLAVE.