"But you must take it; if you don't I can't engage the boat again."
"Not from you, sir."
"I am more interested than any other person in your success with the steamer, and I insist that you take the money."
"I owe you for this cargo of coal, now."
"That was a present from Miss Fanny Grant."
"She is very generous."
"Generous! If she doesn't do more than that for you, I shall be ashamed of her. By the way, captain, she paid the bill for repairing the steamer at Port Henry."
"Indeed!" exclaimed Lawry, who had intended to discharge this debt with the first money he earned. "She is very kind. I don't deserve so much from her and you."
"More, my boy. We haven't done anything at my house but talk about you for a week. Now, you must be reasonable. We intended to give you a good start. Miss Grant wishes to put an upright pianoforte in the saloon. There is just room for it at the end of the stateroom on the starboard side. When that is put in, we shall let you alone. Now, Lawry, take this money; if you don't, I shall be offended."
"I don't like to do so," pleaded Lawry. "It makes me feel mean."