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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: s soon as permission had been granted, I heard him ring up the
printing-office where our advertisements were usually handled.
More I did not hear; for suddenly recalling the big, bad hand in
the register of the What Cheer House, I asked the consulate
clerk if he had a specimen of Captain Trent's writing.
Whereupon I learned that the captain could not write, having
cut his hand open a little before the loss of the brig; that the
latter part of the log even had been written up by Mr.
Goddedaal; and that Trent had always signed with his left
hand. By the time I had gleaned this information, Pinkerton
was ready.
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