Send him to sea--anywhere, before it is too late.

She ain't got no mother; she won't mind a word I say; Miss Jane is blind as a bat; out with him and NOW!" The captain straightened himself up, and with his clenched fist raised above his head like a hammer about to strike, cried: "If he harmed the daughter of Morton Cobden I'd kill him!" The words jumped hot from his throat with a slight hissing sound, his eyes still aflame.
"Well, then, stop it before it gets too late.

I walk the floor nights and I'm scared to death every hour I live." Then her voice broke.
"Please, captain, please," she added in a piteous tone.

"Don't mind me if I talk wild, my heart is breakin', and I can't hold in no longer," and she burst into a paroxysm of tears.
The captain leaned against the sideboard again and looked down upon the floor as if in deep thought.

Martha's tears did not move him.