3/46 He was my husband." Captain Obed Bangs uttered an exclamation. Then he stepped forward and seized Mrs.Barnes' hand. The lady's hand was not a very small one but the Captain's was so large that, as Thankful remarked afterward, it might have shaken hers twice at the same time. "Why, Eben and I was messmates on I don't know how many v'yages! Well, well, well, ma'am, I'm real glad to see you." "You ain't so glad as we are to see you--and your friend," observed Thankful, drily. "Is he a captain, too ?" He didn't look like one, certainly. |