"That's so. Where's Lawry now?"
"He has gone over with the ferry-boat."
"I reckon Lawry has to run the machine now."
"He has to run the ferry-boat."
"Well, he knows how. Lawry's smart—he is. I suppose you don't know me."
"I do not."
"I'm Lawry's brother; and that makes it that Lawry is my brother."
"Then you are Benjamin Wilford?"
"That's my name; but Ben Wilford sounds a good deal more natural to me. I heard the old man had got into trouble, and I came up to see about it, though I'm out of a job just now, and couldn't do anything better. I hear that Lawry owns a steamboat, and I didn't know but he'd want some help. Where is she?"
"She's on the bottom, out there by the Goblins," answered Ethan, pointing to the raft. "We are at work raising her."