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To what does your boasted secret relate?"
"Matrimony; a wife and no wife; a pretty face and a rich bride: do I
speak plain, now, captain?"
"If you know any thing relating to my wife, say it at once; you need
not fear for your reward."
"Ay, captain, I have drove many a bargain in my time, and sometimes I
have been paid in money, and sometimes I have been paid in promises;
now the last are what I call pinching food."
"Name your price."
"Twenty--no, damn it, it's worth thirty dollars, if it's worth a
cent!"
"Here, then, is your money: but remember, if you tell me nothing worth
knowing, I have a force that can easily deprive you of it again, and
punish your insolence in the bargain."
The fellow examined the bank-bills he received, with a jealous eye,
and then pocketed them, apparently well satisfied of their being
genuine.
"I like a northern note," he said very coolly; "they have a character
to lose like myself. No fear of me, captain; I am a man of honour, and
I shall not tell you a word more, nor a word less than I know of my
own knowledge to be true.


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