“You knew Captain Brown, Arthur, who was lost on Abaco?”
“Knew him! I guess I did. He was the means of putting me into business.”
“He was the means of putting a great many into business.”
“Do you know his son?”
“What, young Arthur?”
“Yes.”
“To be sure. We’ve been much worried about him. The vessel he was in foundered, but he has been picked up, so his mother tells me.”
“I picked him up, and brought him here not two hours ago. What kind of a young man is he?”
“As fine a one as ever the sun shone upon; he is thought a great deal of here, both upon his father’s account and his own.”
“Is there business in him, or only goodness?”