human
Is the wreck there now?
gpt
Yes, it’s there, what there is of it, but it is ’most all to pieces,
human
And where are the men?
gpt
Oh, father took them across in his boat after they had done all they could to save things. I tell you, they were awful plucky about getting things out. Father says he wouldn’t have risked his bones on the old hull for nobody.
human
No, I don’t believe he would, boy, said Walter dryly, recalling the slowness with which he responded to their petitions for help when he and Ned were in trouble.
gpt
Your father will never come to his death through want of care for himself, rest sure of that, Johnny; so don’t you lie awake at night worrying about him.