"Are you living on board the _Whatnot_ ?" "Yes, sir, this young gentleman is a guest on board of my boat," said Cap'n Cod, who now found his first chance to speak; "and glad as I have been to have him, it would have made me many times happier to know that he was the son of my old friend and commander.

Why didn't you tell me the truth in the first place, boy ?" And the veteran gazed reproachfully at Winn.
"I did tell you the truth so far as I told you anything.

I didn't dare tell you any more, because I heard you say you were a friend of Sheriff Riley, and knew his skiff.

So I was afraid you would have me arrested for running off with it, and in that way delay me so that I would never find the raft.

Besides, I wanted to wait until I could get a letter from home to prove who I am, and I hadn't a chance to write until we got here." "With me, the simple word of Major Caspar's son would have been stronger than all the proof in the world," said the loyal old soldier; "and though you did, as you say, tell the truth so far as you told anything, you did not tell the whole truth, as your father certainly would have done had he been in your place." "The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," quoted the Sheriff, in his most official tone.