"I haven't an enemy."
"Bananas."
"What's he want to pray me to death for?"
"You ought to have fired him before he had a chance."
"I guess if I ain't got nothing more the matter with me than Bananas' hoodoo I shall be sitting up and taking nourishment in a very few days."
She was silent for a while and she looked at him intently.
"Don't you know you're dying?" she said to him at last.
That was what the two skippers had thought, but they hadn't said it. A shiver passed across the captain's wan face.
"The doctor says there ain't nothing really the matter with me. I've only to lie quiet for a bit and I shall be all right."
She put her lips to his ear as if she were afraid that the air itself might hear.