I s'pose Hucks were a sailor, too, though he never says nuthin' 'bout that.

Old Hucks is livin on the place yit do you want him to git out or what?

"Old Hucks is a curious character.

They all hung eagerly on West's reply, for Old Hucks was a general favorite.

"The Hucks are the right sort, and no mistake," declared the Major, taking his cue from the others.

Old Hucks and his patient wife had not been so much "hired help" as a part of the Wegg establishment, and it was doubtful if they had ever received any wages.

Thomas Hucks was his boatswain,an honest and able seaman in whom my father became much interested.

"If we consider the fact that Old Hucks may be a miser, and have a craving for money without any desire to spend it, then we are pretty close to a reason why he should bide his time and then murder his old master to obtain the riches he coveted.

The other girls were somewhat depressed by the overthrow of one of their pet theories, and reluctantly admitted that if Hucks had been the robber of his master and old Will Thompson, he would not have striven so eagerly to get enough money to send to Joe Wegg.

"When the owner comes he will need servants, and Hucks is a very capable old fellow.

"If Old Hucks is a farm hand and a bachelor," he wrote, "let him stay till I come and look him over.