“Skipper,” grunted the man.
“Where have you sailed?” asked the doctor.
“Everywhere.”
“Ah! Then you have had plenty of experience.”
The visitor nodded, and the doctor was going to speak again, but the visitor interposed with a sidewise nod in the direction of Rodd, and said—
“Your boy?”
“Well, yes, in a way,” replied the doctor.
The captain grunted.
“Boys always are,” he said, and Rodd turned upon him angrily.
“I said in a way, not in the way,” muttered the doctor.