"Yer mean ter tell me, yer rapscallion, that yer don't recall landin' at Topsail Island earlier ter-night and givin' me a note which says ter come urgent and immediate ter see young Rob Blake here?" "Why, captain," calmly returned Hank, with an indulgent grin, "I really think you must be gettin' childish in your old age.

But to think of them rapscallions answering a fire that was ag'in orders!