“What a pity, and he such a fine man otherwise!”
“What’s a pity?”
“Why, his getting drunk, as I hear he does very often.”
“Gets drunk? Who gets drunk? Clancy? That’s news to me. As long as I’ve known him I never saw him drunk yet. He gets mellow and loose––but drunk! Clancy drunk? Why, Nell!”
“Oh, well, all right, he’s an apostle of temperance then. But Captain Blake––where is he?”
“I couldn’t say––why?”
“I have a message for him.”
“Did you try his boarding-house?”
“Yes. That is, Will did, and he wasn’t there, hadn’t been there at all, they said, since the afternoon before.”