"Indeed, but I do, and I hope that you're not going to misbelieve me like that Captain Robinson, that calls here every——"
"What?" ejaculated Deering. "Avast there. Captain Robinson, did you say?"
"Yes."
"Do you know him?"
"I can't very well be off knowing him, seeing as he's here about twice a day, and I know he never wished my poor master no good."
"What makes you think that?" asked Joe Deering.
"Master used always to try to avoid seeing him, poor old gentleman," replied the housekeeper.
"Why do you call him 'poor old gentleman?'"
"Because I know he suffered dreadfully, and I think he was worried by that Robinson into doing something dreadful."
"How dreadful?"