Will you tell her what I've said ?" The chair creaked.

Evidently, Captain Eben was rising slowly to his feet.
"Well ?" repeated Elkanah.
"Elkanah Daniels," said Eben slowly, his voice shaking from nervous exhaustion and weakness, but with a fine ring of determination in every word, "Elkanah Daniels, you listen to me.

I've heard you through.

If your yarn is true, then my heart is broke, and I wish I might have died afore I heard it.

But I didn't die and I have heard it.