"You don't think that?"
"What else can I think? He hasn't been seen or heard or for months and months. But if I wasn't so heavy at heart over that, sir, I could laugh for joy to see that beast of a Captain Robinson's disappointment every time he comes."
"So he comes often?" said Joe Deering, eagerly.
"Every day; sometimes twice a day," was the reply.
Deering thought this information over quietly.
"Would you like to serve him out?" he asked presently.
"Who?"
"Captain Robinson," responded Deering.
"That I should, indeed," said the housekeeper, eagerly; "only show me how to do it."
"I will."