human
Poor Seth Upham! he said at last.
gpt
Well, there's nothing we can do for him now. And as for Neil Gleazen, he's better dead than back in Topham, for here he'd hang as sure as preaching. Jed Matthews, they say, never moved a muscle after Neil hit him on the head. But as for you, Joe, you're no penniless wanderer.
human
What do you mean by that?
gpt
There was all of fifteen thousand dollars on board the brig.
human
What makes you think that?
gpt
Didn't I help Seth store it in his trunk? 'You're simple, Sim, and honest,' he says to me. 'I'll not have another soul besides you know this, but you're as honest as you are simple,' Them's the words he said, and I was that proud of 'em that I've treasured 'em ever since.
human
He hid it well, I replied.
gpt
But even if he had not hidden it so well, I fear that it would nevertheless be at the bottom of the La Plata River, just as it now is, with the brig, and all the goods that were on board her, and many men that sailed in her, good and bad alike.
human
But that is not all.
gpt
Not all? What do you mean?
human
Seth Upham left money in the bank, and I've seen his will with my own eyes. 'Twas found in the safe after we left town, and turned over to Judge Fuller.
gpt
But surely, what with buying the brig and taking all his papers, which I looked over myself in the cabin of the Adventure and which were lost, every one, when she broke up, he had nothing left. Why, the brig must have cost a pretty penny.
human
That may well be, Joe, but there's money in the bank, for all that. Seth Upham had more money tucked away than most people would have believed.
gpt
I do believe, my love, I said,