“Think it over for a couple of days, Captain Banes,” said Sir Humphrey. “I will wait till then.”
“Nay,” said the captain firmly; “a man wants to be careful, but he doesn’t want two days to go shilly-shallying over such a thing as this; and if you gentlemen think that you can trust me—”
“There’s my hand,” said Sir Humphrey.
“And mine,” said Brace, eagerly holding out his.
“And there are mine, gentlemen,” said the captain bluffly; “if you think I’m your man, your man I am, and I’ll stick to you both through thick and thin.”
Chapter Three.
The Pushing Stranger.
Wise people say that one ought to get up very early in the morning, and that it makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.