I must have got things a bit mixed when I told you about how he took bad men into camp, and all that.
But here's the log, and we can take things easy while I confess how I'm the most tremendous impostor going." Hugh seemed eager to hear about it, nor was he apparently at all afraid.
In fact he was looking at the reformed tramp as though he felt a positive affection for him now, in the light of the new revelation.
"First of all, Chum Hugh," said the man, after they had settled themselves comfortably, "I want you to know that the stories I told you about my travels in foreign lands were every one of them Gospel truth.

I have been all around the whole globe, and seen some queer things in my day.

But let that pass, for as we are apt to see considerable of each other after this, there'll be a plenty of time for me to continue that narrative of adventure.
"In the course of my travels I've really picked up several fortunes, and then lost them again almost as quickly.

It didn't much matter, because I was one of those happy-go-lucky chaps who believe the world owes them a living, and which they can get any time they more than half try.
"So the years went on, and all at once I awoke to find that I was getting old and gray.

When a man passes sixty, lad, his thoughts begin to travel far back into the days of his childhood.