If the man's alive it's rather funny he ain't showed up all these years." "Well, keep mum 'bout it, will ye, till I talk to him?
Here comes one o' your men." Green's figure now loomed up out of the mist.
"Where away, Tod ?" the approaching surfman cried when he joined the two.
"Captain wants me to look after the yawl," answered Tod.
"It's all right," cried Green; "I just left it.

Went down a-purpose.
Who's yer friend ?" "A man the cap'n sent along to lend a hand.

This is Sam Green," and he turned to the Swede and nodded to his brother surfman.
The two shook hands.

The stranger had not volunteered his name and Tod had not asked for it.

Names go for little among men who obey orders; they serve merely as labels and are useful in a payroll, but they do not add to the value of the owner or help his standing in any way.
"Shorty" or "Fatty" or "Big Mike" is all sufficient.