Does my child live?
Yes, he faintly answered.
Where is he? quickly asked the Captain.
Cahoonshee made signs to be raised up in bed.
Where are my friends?—those that were on the float with me? Let me see them.
An officer was directed to bring Tom and his father.
Cahoonshee continued to revive, and on the arrival of his friends felt sufficiently strong to talk. He beckoned the Captain to take his hand and said:
These men are friends of your child. This one is his brother, and this one has been to him a father. They will tell you all, and then he fell back on his bed exhausted.
The Quicks were taken to the cabin, where they related the history of Charles Drake, from the time he was captured by the elder Quick on the upper waters of the Mongaup, to the present time, and that when the boat returned from the island they would see their lost child.