I heard a voice coming—
Judah! Judah! Judah! drop 'er, I say, an' come along!" Captain Pharo winked.
"On some other occasion, sir," said Captain Judah, returning the roll to his pocket with cheerful haste, "I shall be happy."
Almost before I was aware that I was liberated, the shifty spectre, whose basilisk eye had not released me, stood at my side.
"You oughter have seen," he began, "the time 't I was killed in Californy——"
Major! major! major! drop 'er, I say, an' come along, by clam!"