“Of course. Now’s the time. We must get him down to-day, while we’re all here. If we don’t, he’ll be certain to hear all about it before tomorrow from some one else.”
“Yes, of course.”
“To-day’s the time.”
“Yes, to-day. We’re all here. I want to see the meeting. I wouldn’t lose the sight for anything.”
“Well—what shall we get up to bring him here?”
“O, let’s send word that Captain Pratt wants to see him on very particular business.”
“That won’t bring him, especially if he’s got the babby. He wouldn’t come down before when the business was still more important.”
“We couldn’t send some word about a potato freight, I suppose.”
“No, for three reasons; first, because it isn’t the truth; secondly, because he believes that he has no schooner; and thirdly, because he is indifferent to potato freights.”
“Well, what shall we tell him, then?”