Dead Men Tell No Tales

good and bad, has left me now, and you will make a new man of me so soon! Besides, God must mean it, or He would not have thrown us together amid such horrors, and brought us through them together still. And you have no one else to take care of you in the world! Won’t you let me try, Eva? Say that you will!”

“Then - you - ove me?” she said slowly, in a low, awe-struck voice that might have told me my fate at once; but


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good and bad, has left me now, and you will make a new man of me so soon! Besides, God must mean it, or He would not have thrown us together amid such horrors, and brought us through them together still. And you have no one else to take care of you in the world! Won’t you let me try, Eva? Say that you will!”

“Then - you - ove me?” she said slowly, in a low, awe-struck voice that might have told me my fate at once; but


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