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The story was told to us by James Walker in the cabin of a seven-ton cutter one night when we lay anchored in Helford river. It was towards the end of September; during this last week the air had grown chilly with the dusk,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the sea when it lost the sun took on a leaden and a dreary look. There was no other boat in the wooded creek and the swish of the tide against the planks had a very lonesome sound. All the circumstances I think provoked Walker to tell the story but most of all the lonely swish of the tide against the planks. For it is the story of a man's loneliness and the strange ways into which loneliness misled him. However,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], let the story speak for itself.
Hatteras and Walker had been schoolfellows,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], though never schoolmates. Hatteras indeed was the head of the school and prophecy vaguely sketched out for him a brilliant career in some service of importance. The definite law,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], however,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], overbore the prophecy. Hatteras, the father,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], disorganised his son's future by dropping unexpectedly through one of the trap ways of speculation into the bankruptcy court beneath just two months before Hatteras,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the son,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was to have gone up to Oxford. The lad was therefore compelled to start life in a stony world with a stock in trade which consisted of a school boy's command of the classics,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a real inborn gift of tongues and the friendship of James Walker. The last item proved of the most immediate value. For Walker,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], whose father was the junior partner in a firm of West African merchants,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], obtained for Hatteras an employment as the bookkeeper at a branch factory in the Bight of Benin.
Thus the friends parted. Hatteras went out to West Africa alone and met with a strange welcome on the day when he landed. The incident did not come to Walker's ears until some time afterwards,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], nor when he heard of it did he at once appreciate the effect which it had upon Hatteras. But chronologically it comes into the story at this point,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and so may as well be immediately told.