"I can't stand it! I can't stand it!" cried Dan, and Harvey whimpered in sympathy.
"Abaout five year," said Disko, in a shaking voice.
"Then I have been a charge on some one for every day of that time. Who was the man?"
Disko pointed to Salters.
"Ye hain't—ye hain't!" cried the sea-farmer, twisting his hands together. "Ye've more'n earned your keep twice-told; an' there's money owin' you, Penn, besides ha'af o' my quarter-share in the boat, which is yours fer value received."
"You are good men. I can see that in your faces. But—"
"Mother av Mercy," whispered Long Jack, "an' he's been wid us all these trips! He's clean bewitched."
A schooner's bell struck up alongside, and a voice hailed through the fog: "O Disko! 'Heard abaout the Jennie Cushman?"
"They have found his son," cried Penn. "Stand you still and see the salvation of the Lord!"
"Got Jason aboard here," Disko answered, but his voice quavered. "There—warn't any one else?"