He thought, or rather _I_ thought, that perhaps it had been taken from him and laid away for safe keeping.

Or perhaps it may have fallen into the water and gone down.
There's a lot of valuable stuff under the water these days." I think he said that just so's to kind of make a joke about what he was saying, so as maybe it wouldn't seem so serious like.

Anyway, he was awfully trice.

"It seems pretty contemptible to be talking about money," he said, "after my pal's life was saved by you folks, but it's just because the money has to be paid out pretty soon that he's worrying about it.

He didn't want me to come over and ask, but I told him I was going to, anyway.