statements nor fer jumpin' overboard, which I'm abaout ha'af
convinced he did. You be gentle with him, Dan, 'r I'll give you
twice what I've give him. Them hemmeridges clears the head. Let
him sluice it off!"
-
Troop went down solemnly into the cabin, where he and the older
men bunked, leaving Dan to comfort the luckless heir to thirty
millions.


CHAPTER II

"I warned ye," said Dan, as the drops fell thick and fast on the
dark, oiled planking. "Dad ain't noways hasty, but you fair earned
it. Pshaw! there's no sense takin' on so." Harvey's shoulders were
rising and falling in spasms of dry sobbing. "I know the feelin'.
First time dad laid me out was the last - and that was my first
trip. Makes ye feel sickish an' lonesome. I know."

"It does," moaned Harvey. "That man's either crazy or drunk, and -
and I can't do anything."

"Don't say that to dad," whispered Dan. "He's set ag'in' all
liquor, an' - well, he told me you was the madman. What in
creation made you call him a thief? He's my dad."

Harvey sat up, mopped his nose, and told the story of the missing
wad of bills. "I'm not crazy," he wound up. "Only - your father
has never seen more than a five-dollar bill at a time, and my
father could buy up this boat once a week and never miss it."