"I didn't tell him nothin'; he told me, and he said he took that stuff off your hands, and was goin' to have the next lot; he said you oughtn't to land the stuff on that island, and wanted to know how we happened to let the boat go adrift."
"And you told him?" gasped the captain.
"What was the use of my tellin' on him, when he knowed all about it? O, he said you and I had both been takin' too much. He was kind o' jokin', but I stuck to it that we was as sober as he was. I did tell him how the boat got adrift; but he told me all the rest."
"Ben, you are a fool!"
"I tell you he knowed all about it," whined the nephew.
"You've made a pretty mess of it."
"I didn't do it. He knowed all about it afore, and I s'posed you told him."
"I told him nothing. I never said a word to him. Don't you know the man's name?"
"No, I don't. He wouldn't tell me, nor Bob nuther."
"Well, I know who he is," groaned Captain Chinks, pounding the trunk of the cabin with his fist, and grating his teeth with rage.