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When I was about to leave Californy, Willum told me first of all to go and find you out, and give you that letter and bag of nuggets, which I've done. `Then, says he, `Wopper, you go and find out my brother Jim's widow, and give 'em my love an' dooty, and this letter, and this bag of nuggets, said letter and bag, ma'am, bein' now in my chest aboard ship. `So, says I, `Willum, I will trust me. `I do, says he; `and, Wopper, says he, `keep your weather eye open, my boy, w'en you go to see 'em, because I've my suspicions, from what my poor brother said on his deathbed, when he was wandering in his mind, that his widow is extravagant.
"Ah!" returned Mrs Roby, shaking her head and smiling gently, "I see that William has told you all about it." "He has, ma'am," replied Captain Wopper, with a decisive nod.
Besides these, there was a Russian Professor, who had come there for purposes of scientific investigation, and a couple of German students, and a Scotch man of letters, whose aim was general observation, and several others, whose end was simply seeing the world. In the arrangements of the table, Captain Wopper found himself between Emma Gray and the Polish Count, whose name was Horetzki.
"Indeed!" exclaimed Mrs Stoutley, with increasing animation, as she rose and held out her hand; "any friend of my brother-in-law is heartily welcome. Be seated, Mr Wopper, and let me hear about him. He was very kind to my dear husband during his last illness very kind. I shall never forget him."
You take special note of her, Wopper, and if it should seem to you that they don't treat her well, you let me know. `Willum, says I, `I will trust me. `Well, then, says Willum, `there's one other individooal I want you to ferret out, that's the gentleman he must be an old gentleman now that saved my life when I was a lad, Mr Lawrence by name.
"Wopper," repeated the Professor, "you are not the first who has expressed disbelief in what he cannot see, and you will assuredly not be the last; but if you will wait I will convince you." "Very good," replied the Captain, "I'm open to conviction." "Which means," said Lewis, "that you have nailed your colours to the mast, and mean to die rather than give in."
"So much for number one," said Captain Wopper, with a look of satisfaction. "They won't fix the other ones so easily," observed the Professor, re-examining the stake through the telescope with great care. He was right in this.
"Oh! wery partickler," said Gillie, responding to his patron's glance with a powerful wink. Expressing a hope that Susan would keep Mrs Roby company till he returned, the Captain left the room with his usual heavy roll, and the spider followed with imitative swagger. Captain Wopper was fond of mystery.
Captain Wopper uttered a cheer, and rushed forward in advance of the guide, took off his hat and threw it into the air. They had reached the round summit without being aware of it. They stood 15,781 feet above the sea-level! No envious peak rose above their heads.
"Really, Lewie, you ought to be ashamed of making such bad puns," interrupted his mother. "Doubtless it would be very agreeable to have Captain Wopper with us, but I am quite sure it would be anything but pleasant for him to travel through such a wild country with such a wild goose as you for a companion."
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