“The captain wishes to see me?”
“So he informed me, sir, a minute ago.”
“I say, Perry, do I look as though I had been going it rather deep?”
“You look a trifle bilged, Clemmons.”
“You do not know what he wants with me?”
“No.”
“Has he gotten hold of that row of Merrill’s ashore, I wonder?”
“What row of Merrill’s ashore?”
“When he ran afoul of that beat Breslin.”
“Ah, your friend Breslin, whom he knocked down, as he should have done; but then Breslin was well tanked up after his dinner with you, and lost his reckoning so far as to run across Merrill’s course, and foundered under the blow; but when you have seen Captain De Long, Mr. Clemmons, I desire a word with you,” and Bemis Perry went on his way, while Scott Clemmons sought the cabin of Captain De Long.