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"Indeed!" exclaimed Lawry, who had intended to discharge this debt with the first money he earned. "She is very kind. I don't deserve so much from her and you." "More, my boy. We haven't done anything at my house but talk about you for a week. Now, you must be reasonable. We intended to give you a good start. Miss Grant wishes to put an upright pianoforte in the saloon.
"I don't accuse him of anything; but here are the facts, and you can all see for yourselves." "You throw your coat down anywhere. It would have gone overboard from the sloop if I hadn't saved it; and it won't do for so careless a man as you are to accuse anybody of stealing your money," added Lawry angrily. "Very likely you lost it out of the pocket before you got into the ferry-boat."
"I think we had better not wait for him, for he may not be back for some time. I haven't shown you this paper, mother," he continued, wishing to draw off her attention from his father, as he handed her the bill of sale of the Woodville, and seated himself at the table. "What is it, Lawry?" "It is a bill of sale of the little steamer." "A what?" demanded Mrs.
Lawry gave the helm to one of the deck-hands, and went below to make some entries in his account-book. He had been paid, that day, fifty dollars for the boat, and thirty dollars for dinners. Mrs. Light had expended twenty-six dollars for provisions and groceries, but he still had one hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
She is safe, and we are running her very slowly," continued the young pilot. "Lawry knows where the rocks are," said Mrs. Wilford, "and I'll warrant you there is no danger." With some misgivings, the ladies, who had suffered by the catastrophe when the Woodville was wrecked, permitted themselves to be handed to the deck of the steamer. "I congratulate you on your success, Lawry," said Mr.
He was ready to accept the moral and prudential deductions from the catastrophe, and really believed that the rich man's maxim was a safe and valuable one. In his own limited experience, Lawry could recall many instances where haste had made waste; but the foolish conduct of Mr.
If it had been dropped on shore or in the ferry-boat, it would not have disappeared so strangely. Lawry was so positive that the pocketbook was still in the ferry-boat, or on the shore, that he renewed the search, and carefully scrutinized every foot of ground between the house and the landing-place, but with no better success than before.
He sent his coachman after the sheriff at once, and directed that the search for Ben Wilford should be renewed. The stateroom was found locked, as he had left it, and the gold undisturbed. Mrs. Light and the girls, the firemen and the deck-hands, had their own stories to tell, to all of which Mr. Sherwood listened very patiently. "You have done well, Lawry," said he. "You have saved my gold."
"I think I would, after he had learned the navigation." "He is your brother, Lawry, and I don't like to say anything to wound you; but I feel that your brother is not a reliable person. You must be very prudent. Even a trifling accident, resulting from mismanagement, might ruin your business; for people will not expose their lives needlessly.
"There is our fine little steamer at the bottom of the lake." "She may lie there, for all me," added Mr. Sherwood. "I should not dare to put my foot on board of her again," said Miss Fanny. "Nor I," chimed in Fanny Jane. "She isn't to blame, Mr. Sherwood," interposed Ethan French. "She worked as though she had been alive." "No steamer could stand such a thump on the Goblins," added Lawry.
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