"The cabin, uncle. I did not know my worth until you rehearsed it; then I could not resist. So, you dear old nunkey, you've come to see me. I made him send. You'll not be cross with him—now will you?"
"Were you the prisoner this gentleman spoke about?"
"Yes, uncle, and if it had not been for the Lively Bee, of which Mr. Vernon is captain, I should have been dead before this."
"And so you want to marry him?"
"Yes, please, uncle."
"So you shall. Join hands—— What's the matter with you, sir?"
Vernon had stepped back, and the captain was at a loss to understand his meaning.
"I am not the happy man."
"Zounds! didn't you hear Bertha, my niece, say she wanted to marry you? And, by Jove! she shall have her way, or I'm not a captain in the United States navy."