Presently, sure enough, we went sailing by that plantation. Captain Klinefelter appeared on the deck, and said—
'Let her come around, sir, let her come around. Didn't Henry tell you to land here?'
'No, sir!'
'I sent him up to do, it.'
'He did come up; and that's all the good it done, the dod-derned fool. He never said anything.'
'Didn't you hear him?' asked the captain of me.
Of course I didn't want to be mixed up in this business, but there was no way to avoid it; so I said—
'Yes, sir.'
I knew what Brown's next remark would be, before he uttered it; it was—
'Shut your mouth! you never heard anything of the kind.'