I didn't know that you had reached this place, or I should have come to see you before.

I found this monkey a little while ago in possession of some boys who were teasing him, and thought I recognized him as soon as I saw him.

I became certain he was yours when some of the boys said they had seen him on a show-boat last evening, and that, after they had had some fun with him, they were going to bring him down here and claim a reward.

As I wanted the pleasure of bringing him back to you myself, I bought him of them, and here he is." "Then you are not a bad man, as Winn said, but a very good one, as I told him, and now I can prove it!" exclaimed Sabella, with a note of joyous triumph in her voice.

"I'm ever and ever so much obliged to you, and I only wish I could see your little girl to tell her what a splendid father she has." "Who is Winn?
And what makes him think I am a bad man ?" inquired the stranger, curiously.
"Oh, he's a boy, a big boy, that has lost a raft that we are helping him find, and he thinks you stole it.