CHAPTER III

THE “EB AN’ FLO” Just how it happened Samuel Tobin, owner and captain of the “Eb and Flo,” was never able to explain with any degree of clearness. He knew that he was on his knees, scrubbing the floor of the little cabin and humming “Here I’ll raise my Ebenezer, Hither by Thy grace I’ll come,” when a form darkened the narrow doorway overhead. Then followed a scream of fright, and before he had hardly time to look around she was lying by his side, a confused heap of silk, lace…