"Yes, I—I am. By George, I am, aren't I!... And you did it for me. You did!"
"Never mind that. I enjoyed doin' it. Yes," with a slight smile, "I had a pretty good time, take it by and large."
"And you got the—the whole of it! The whole!"
"Yes."
"But I can't understand.... Did—Cap'n Kendrick, did you borrow it for me?"
"No. I talked things over with your—er—side-partner and he decided to give it back."
"To give it back! Mr. Phillips did, you mean? But he wouldn't give it to me. I begged him to. I should have been satisfied with half of it—my sister's half. Indeed I should! But he said he couldn't give it to me, he didn't have it to give. And—and you got him to give me the whole! Cap'n Kendrick, I—I can't understand."
"You don't have to. There's your sixteen hundred. Now take it, and before you turn in this night you get ready to send your brother-in-law his half, and the papers that go with it, on the first mail. That's all I ask of you, George."
"I'll have it in the post office as soon as it opens to-morrow morning. You bet I will!"
"That's what I want to be able to bet. You send a money-order, that's safest. And—well, yes, George, you might show me the receipt."