“Did he ask you anything?”
“Yes, he asked me if I had any corn to spare, and I told him I would let him have five bushels.”
“Was that all?”
“Yes; I was in a hurry; went down to get some tobacco; didn’t get off the horse; he brought it out.” A longer pause.
“Fred was over to the island. He wanted me to ask you something.”
“Did he? What was it?”
“Whether—He wanted me to ask if you thought Captain Rhines and his wife would let the girls go to sail in this boat with him—Henry Griffin and Fred’s sister.”
“But ain’t you going?”
“Yes, sir; they wanted me to go with them.”