I cal'lated you city folks
was late sleepers, and I wouldn't want to make any trouble, so I found
a little eating house down below here a ways and had a cup of coffee and
some bread and butter and mush. Then I went cruisin' round in Central
Park a spell. This IS Central Park over across here, ain't it?"
"Yes." The girl was too astonished to say more.
"I thought 'twas. I'd been through part of it afore, but 'twas years
ago, and it's such a big place and the paths run so criss-cross I got
sort of mixed up, and it took me longer to get out than it did to get
in. I had the gen'ral points of the compass, and I guess I could have
made a pretty average straight run for home, but every time I wanted to
cut across lots there was a policeman lookin' at me, so I had to stick
to the channel. That's what made me so late. Now do go and eat your
breakfast. I won't feel easy till I see you start."
Caroline departed, and the captain, after a visit to his own room, where
he left his coat and hat, returned to the library, picked up the paper
which his nephew had dropped, and began reading.
After breakfast came the "business talk." It was a brief one. Captain
Elisha soon discovered that his brother's children knew very little
concerning their father's affairs.
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