At my request he showed me the telegram, and I must say he had communicated the necessary information without giving away the truth. The Quaker City was a good enough ship and sizable for her time. Hedid, in fact, give the story up, and without much regret, when it wasabout half completed, and let it lie unfinished for years. I was knocked for a loop too.
A moralist would say he got what he deserved. The horrors of three days have swept over me--they have blasted my youth and left me an old man before my time. Does she do that deliberately? Stir him up, I mean. How you must miss the good old days, before Mother reformed you.
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