"Then I shall reach Whitehall just in time for the train. But,
Lawry, I see that you must have another pilot on board."
"I think I can get along, sir."
"You will wear yourself out. You have run a portion of the last two nights, and this arrangement will make the third."
"I can sleep just as well at Port Rock as at Whitehall. To-morrow will be Saturday, and my engagements for Monday and Tuesday are at the upper end of the lake, so that I shall have no more night work at present. I can stand it well enough."
"I'm afraid it will be too much for you; but if you have to engage an extra pilot, you must raise your price to sixty dollars a day."
"I think we shall need another engineer at the same time. Ethan has just as hard a time of it as I do."
"You had better raise your price; people will not object."
"I was thinking, sir, that Ben would make a good pilot. He is a good wheelman, and it wouldn't take him long to learn the courses on the lake."
Mr. Sherwood shook his head.
"Would you be willing to trust him with the boat?—go to sleep yourself, while he is at the helm?" asked he.