I took a dislike to Clyde's money. I bought a passage to SanFrancisco, and came there in the decade '75.

There I put the profits of six decades on the West Coast into sharesin a ship called the _Anaconda_, and shipped on her myself assecond mate.

I found Stevey Todd cooking in a restaurant in San Francisco. He'dgone into gold mines, after getting loose from the _Henrietta Allen_.He'd left his profits from the Hotel Helen Mar in the gold mines.Every mine he'd invested in got discouraged, so he said, but I judgethe truth was more likely Stevey Todd was taken in by mining sharks.He'd made up his mind property wasn't his stronghold and gone back tocooking, and never took any more interest in property after that, norhad any to take interest in. But he told me Sadler was in businessand getting rich, and in partnership with a Chinaman, and living in atown called "Saleratus," sixty miles down the coast, which none ofthese statements seemed likely at the time. Stevey Todd didn't knowwhy the town was named Saleratus. He thought maybe Sadler had namedit, or maybe gone there on account of the name, foreseeinginteresting rhymes with "potatoes" and "tomatoes." But I didn't lookSadler up at that time.

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The Captain turned to Uncle Abimelech, and exclaimed: