“Nothing—only listen. Perhaps this is only a mare’s nest; but I’ve had so much to do with men, that I am rather a keen observer.”
“Is there any danger—anything wrong?” exclaimed Dutch, glancing involuntarily towards his wife.
“Danger or no danger,” replied the captain, “life is very uncertain, and if you will excuse me for saying it, I don’t think you would like to die, or see her die,”—he nodded in the direction of the spot where Hester was sitting—“without clasping hands once more.”
Story 1--Chapter XIV.
A Man Overboard.
Dutch turned pale as ashes, and closed his eyes for a few moments; then turning an angry look upon the captain, he exclaimed—
“You have no right to intrude in this way upon my private feelings, Captain Studwick.”
“Not, perhaps, between man and man, Pugh; but I speak as one who would give all he has to recall his poor wife, who died while he was at sea, after parting from her in anger.”