"And if Cap'n Abe
was in the schooner's crew----Why, Professor Grayling! surely you must
remember him? Not a big man, but with heavy gray beard and
mustache--and very bald. Mild blue eyes and very gentle-spoken. Don't
you remember him in the crew of the _Curlew_?"
"It would seem quite probable that he was aboard," Professor Grayling
returned, "minding his p's and q's," as Louise had warned him. "But
you see, Mr. Tapp, being only a passenger, I had really little
association with the men forward. You know how it is aboard
ship--strict discipline, and all that."
"Yes, sir; I see. And, after all, Cap'n Abe was a man that could
easily be overlooked. Not assertive at all. Not like Cap'n Amazon.
Quite timid and retiring by nature. Don't you say so, Louise?"
"Oh, absolutely!" agreed the girl. "And yet, when you come to think of
it, Uncle Abram is a wonderful man."
"I don't see how you can say so," the young man said. "It's Cap'n
Amazon who is wonderful. There were other men down on the beach better
able to handle an oar than he.
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