Ber. Well, that’s quite sufficient if it’s truth you are telling.
Sam. Of course it is! I wouldn’t tell you any stories, Uncle Cran.
Ber. (a trifle dazed). All right. Now listen, Sammy, you forget this stuff you have been telling me jest as soon as ever you can. Don’t you breathe a word of it to a living soul. If I ever hear that you have, I’ll forget to make peace with your father, and there won’t be any more trips with me over to the Point to visit the light.
Sam. Oh, I’ll never tell, Uncle Cran! Honest! Hope to die!
Ber. All right. Now you go and find Cap’n Abner and tell him that I am up here and want to see him. Then you go home as hard as you can pelt. Your mother is looking for you.
Sam. (exits). All right, Uncle Cran.
(Slight pause. Ber. sits on the sofa looking down at the floor.)
Ber. Great jumping jingoes!
Enter Lee and Peter.
Lee. Captain Berry, I was just talking with Miss Freeman and she said you were up here. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your kindness to me. I don’t see how you ever happened to stand by a stranger the way you did.