He came on deck and shut them in the cabin without replying.

As Captain Godfrey crawled to his position at the helm, he said to himself, my dear children have escaped the arrow and tomahawk, the flames at Grimross, the thunder, lightning and tempest, and even yet they are safe.

If it were not for my children I would prefer to sleep here in death rather than live elsewhere.

I would be near my wife to share a part with her in the resurrection.
While the Captain was thus mournfully musing, a faint light began to creep around the eastern horizon.

He was so absorbed in thought and in watching every movement of the sloop that he did not notice the increasing light.