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"Dat I cannot say, sar," answered the black; "I only know dat a perliceman come out ob de door ob de lock-up as I was passin' by, and asked me if I wanted to earn fibe shillin'; and when I say `yes, he take me into de lock-up and interdooce me to young bucra, who say him name am Lindsay, and dat if I will take a message to you he will gib me fibe shillin' when I come back wid you."
"Certainly I do," answered I; "what of him?" "Why, sar, he hab got into a lilly scrape down on de wharf, and de perlice hab put him into de lock-up. Dey don' beliebe dat he am man-o'- war bucra, and he say, `Will you be so good as to step down dere an' identerfy him an' bail him out?" "Lindsay got into a scrape?" repeated I incredulously. "I cannot believe it! What has he been doing?"
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