“I ain’t blamin’ her, nor never will”
CALEB WEST, MASTER DIVER
BY F. HOPKINSON SMITH
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
MALCOLM FRASER AND ARTHUR I. KELLER
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1898
COPYRIGHT, 1897 AND 1898, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND CO.
COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY F. HOPKINSON SMITH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS
[I. The Cape Ann Sloop]
[II. A Morning’s Mail]
[III. Captain Brandt at the Throttle]
[IV. Among the Blackfish and Tomcods]
[V. Aunty Bell’s Kitchen]
[VI. A Little Dinner for Five]
[VII. Betty’s First Patient]
[VIII. The “Heave Ho” of Lonny Bowles]
[IX. What the Butcher Saw]
[X. Strains from Bock’s ’Cello]
[XI. Captain Joe’s Telegram]
[XII. Captain Joe’s Creed]
[XIII. A Shanty Door]
[XIV. Two Envelopes]
[XV. A Narrow Path]
[XVI. Under the Willows]
[XVII. The Song of the Fire]
[XVIII. The Equinoctial Gale]
[XIX. From the Lantern Deck]
[XX. At the Pines]
[XXI. The Record of Nickles, the Cook]
[XXII. After the Battle]
[XXIII. A Broken Draw]
[XXIV. The Swinging Gate]
[XXV. Under the Pitiless Stars]
[XXVI. Caleb Trims His Lights]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[“I ain’t blamin’ her, nor never will”]
[“Swung back the gate with the gesture of a rollicking boy”]
[“Helen ... in white muslin—not a jewel”]
[“No, it’s my Betty”]
[“What’s she but a chit of a child that don’t know no better”]
[“Sanford ... raised her hand to his lips”]
[“Thank God, Tony! Thank God!”]
[“Victory is ours!”]
[“The diver knelt in a passive, listless way”]
[“Ain’t nothin’ to skeer ye, child”]