Captain Jim surveyed her tears with pleasure shining from his face.
"I like to see folks cry that way," he remarked.

"It's a compliment.
But I can't do justice to the things I've seen or helped to do.

I've 'em all jotted down in my life-book, but I haven't got the knack of writing them out properly.

If I could hit on jest the right words and string 'em together proper on paper I could make a great book.

It would beat A Mad Love holler, and I believe Joe'd like it as well as the pirate yarns.