'Captain Oleson,' she says, sweet as you please, 'I've a few minutes to spare on you, and I've got some good whisky over on the _Emily_.

Come on along.

Besides, I want your advice about this wrecking business.

Everybody says you're a crackerjack sailor-man'-- that's what she said, 'crackerjack.' And I went, in her whale-boat, Adamu Adam steering and looking as solemn as a funeral.
"On the way she told me about the _Martha_, and how she'd bought her, and was going to float her.

She said she'd chartered the _Emily_, and was sailing as soon as I could get the _Flibberty_ underway.