The Yankee Champion — page 190: what you’re looking at

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THE YANKEE CHAMPION, 183 CHAPTER XXII. - CONCLUSION. It was nearly a month before Walter Nixon again entered port. and then Captain Manly and himself carried two heavy ships into the harbor of Ports- mouth. They were valuable prizes, and they had been captured without the loss of life. Nixon left his vessel under the charge of Baker, and in company with Jacob Maynard, he started for the residence of the latter. Mrs. Maynard was made once more happy—if a burst of joy can be called happiness—at seeing her husband, and she greeted the gallant young captain with enthusiasm. With a quick step she hastened about among the closets and cupboards, and soon had a substantial meal pre- pared for the new-comers. “What is the matter, captain?’’ asked Maynard, as he noticed that Nixon had remained long silent, and appeared to be lost to what was passing about him. The young man started an gazed vacantly upon the old man, and then his eyes rested upon the dame. ‘‘Do you remember the scene that passed between you and me a month ago in my cabin?’’ ‘““Yes,’’ returned Maynard, while a look of gloom settled over his features. ‘Well, it was upon that I was Pinkie If you remember, we both had reason to be curious. Now, I wish you to tell me the secret of the tears I saw you shed then, and of much of ae strangeness I have seen in your manners since.’ comicbhooks.com |