For that matter, the name I am known by is not my name.

I carefully compounded it out of names of other families.

I have had misfortunes.

I trod the quarter-deck when I was a young man, though never the deck of the _Wide Awake_, which is the ship of my fancy--and of my livelihood in these latter days.
"The scars you asked about, and the missing fingers?
Thus it chanced.

It was the morning, at late getting-up times in a Pullman, when the accident happened.