"I'll wager you do, now! Where did you live before you came here?"
"With Papa and Mamma."
"What, now, may your name be?"
"Bobby, thir."
"What is your papa's name?"
"What is my papa's name?"
"Yes, what is your papa's name?"
"Why, 'Papa,'" in great surprise that all the world did not know that.
Further solicitation brought from the child the statement that "Uncle Robert took me for a nice ride in a boat, but Uncle Robert got hurted, and I came here."
And this was the sum total of the information concerning Bobby's past that Skipper Ed succeeded in drawing from the child, though he questioned and cross-questioned him at length, after Abel and Mrs. Abel had told how they found him that August morning. But Abel and Mrs. Abel, considering these things of small importance, did not mention to or show Skipper Ed the packet containing the notebook found in the dead man's pocket, and which they had carefully put away.