Dan'l looked up quickly, a retort on his lips; but he remembered himself
in time. "I'm wrong," he said frankly. "Brander is a good man. No doubt
the whole matter will turn out all right...."
Cap'n Wing, finishing his dinner, said fretfully: "There's too much talk
of this man. I'm sick of it. Keep an eye on him, Mr. Ham. If he looks
sidewise, clip him. But don't talk so much...."