"Not at all! not at all!" cried the Captain. "No trouble whatever to show them. Very glad indeed to have the opportunity. By the by, would you like to take a few of them, as a memento of your visit?"
"Oh no, I thank you," replied the Reformed Pirate, "I would rather not."
"Perhaps, then, some of your men might like a trinket or a bit of cloth—"
"Oh, I have no men! There is no one on board but myself—excepting a little girl, who is a passenger. But I must be going. Good-by, Captain!"
"I am sorry you are in such a hurry," said the Captain. "Is there anything at all that I can do for you?"
"No, thank you. But stop!—there may be something. Do you sail to any port where there is a trade in tidies?"
"Oh yes! To several such," said the Captain.
"Well, then, I would be very much obliged to you," said the Reformed Pirate, "if you would sometimes stop off that point that you see there, and send a boat ashore to my house for a load of tidies."
"You manufacture them by the quantity, then?" asked the Captain.
"I expect to," said the other, sadly.