CHAPTER XVII

CAPTAIN SAM’L GOES HOME As Mrs. Tobin walked with her husband from the shore the evening she took him off the “Eb and Flo,” she maintained a rigid silence. The captain was well accustomed to this mood, and it always affected him more than the scolding. He knew then that his wife’s anger was more than ordinary, and it was necessary for him to use all the diplomacy at his command. “I’ve been thinkin’, Martha, that you need a holiday,” he at length ventured. “Ye haven’t taken one fer a long time now. A trip to Fre…