And when I think what he used to be, smart, lively, able, one of the best skippers and smartest business men afloat or ashore, it don't seem possible a body could change so.

'Twas that woman that done it, that woman that trapped him into gettin' married." "Sshh! Shh! Shadrach; she's dead, too.

And, besides, I guess she was a real good woman; everybody said she was." "I ain't sayin' she wasn't, am I?
What I say is she hadn't no business marryin' a man twenty years older'n she was." "But," mildly, "you said she trapped him.

Now we don't know--" "Zoeth Hamilton, you know she must have trapped him.

You and I agreed that was just what she done.