Some rumor concerning the cause of your visit has also spread in New Orleans, and for this reason I am here to meet you at the door of the Governor General." The five looked at him inquiringly.

He smiled, and they liked him better than ever.
"I don't mean to make a mystery of anything," he said.

"My name is Pollock, Oliver Pollock." "Ah," exclaimed Paul, his face alight, "you are the head of the company of Philadelphia, New York and Boston merchants that is sending arms from New Orleans up the Mississippi and Ohio to Pittsburg, where they are landed and taken across the country for the use of our hard-pressed brethren in the east!" The shrewd merchant's eyes twinkled.
"I see, my young friend," he said to Paul, "that you are alert, even if you have just come out of the wilderness.

Yes, I am that man, and I am proud to be the head of such a company.

I tell you, too, that you have come at the right time.