Captain Klinefelter appeared on the deck, and said-- 'Let her come around, sir, let her come around.

Didn't Henry tell you to land here ?' 'NO, sir!' 'I sent him up to do, it.' 'He did come up; and that's all the good it done, the dod-derned fool.
He never said anything.' 'Didn't YOU hear him ?' asked the captain of me.
Of course I didn't want to be mixed up in this business, but there was no way to avoid it; so I said-- 'Yes, sir.' I knew what Brown's next remark would be, before he uttered it; it was-- 'Shut your mouth! you never heard anything of the kind.' I closed my mouth according to instructions.

An hour later, Henry entered the pilot-house, unaware of what had been going on.

He was a thoroughly inoffensive boy, and I was sorry to see him come, for I knew Brown would have no pity on him.

Brown began, straightway-- 'Here! why didn't you tell me we'd got to land at that plantation ?' 'I did tell you, Mr.Brown.' 'It's a lie!' I said-- 'You lie, yourself.