Pow assured him in the most solemn manner that he meant nothing else.
He seemed greatly pleased at Ed's ready assent.
Ethel was called and told.
She had recovered her good humor by this time and she made herself very agreeable.
A supper was spread and they all sat down to it.
Pow Chow was very curious to know how Mr. Butler ever came to take up with the Bradys.
Ed could not answer this, however.
He had been told nothing about the Bradys till his father, being taken sick, ordered him to go to New York and meet them.
Inwardly he was wondering what his father's real intentions were.
As for his mother, Ed knew her too well to imagine for a moment that Uncle Sam would ever have seen any of the stolen money if she could get her hands on it.