bein’ becalmed like; there wasn’t no lady aboard her, though.”
“Was there anybody?”
“Two dead ‘uns - an’ this here paper.”
“Let me see it!”
The skipper hesitated.
“Hadn’t you better wait a bit?”
“No, no; for Christ’s sake let me see the worst; do you think I can’t read it in your face?”
I could - I did. I made that plain to them, and at last I had the paper smoothed out upon my knees. It was a short statement of
bein’ becalmed like; there wasn’t no lady aboard her, though.”
“Was there anybody?”
“Two dead ‘uns - an’ this here paper.”
“Let me see it!”
The skipper hesitated.
“Hadn’t you better wait a bit?”
“No, no; for Christ’s sake let me see the worst; do you think I can’t read it in your face?”
I could - I did. I made that plain to them, and at last I had the paper smoothed out upon my knees. It was a short statement of
