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"Here I am, doctor," he said. "Will you come down?" The doctor made no answer in words, but he hurried briskly across the deck. One man, Ebenezer Capen, an old fisherman and ex-whaler from East Trumet, started to follow him, but he was the only one. The others waited, with scared faces, by the rail. "Get her under way and inshore as soon as you can," ordered Dr. Parker. "Ebenezer, you can help.
Pepper alone had been the repository of my secret perfidious Pepper! As we left station after station behind us, I felt less and less like encountering the members of our family. Sailor Ben fathomed what was passing in my mind, for he leaned over and said: "I don't think as the Capen will bear down very hard on you." But it wasn't that.
Among them were President Capen, of Tufts College, president of the League, and such grand citizens as Rufus Frost, Jonathan A. Lane, and Dr. Henry Martin Dexter; the Honorable Frank M. Ames, Senator, and Charles Carleton Coffin, Representative, being guests of honor.
Dockor no laugh at Mass' George, ony say, `Poor fellow! and `Put um to bed, an' `Good job um got such tick head, and put plaster on um." I raised my hand to my head, and sure enough there was some sticking-plaster there. "Does my father know?" I said, as a sudden thought occurred to me. "Pomp done know, Mass' George. Haben see Mass' Capen long time."
The attention of the company being secured, he alluded to his present position as a change, he believed, for the better from his former relation to society when he was preaching against, to the present time when he was working for, humanity; and gave as a toast, "Ephraim Capen thrust into the pulpit to damn mankind, thrust out of the pulpit to bless mankind."
Capen, Burton and all hands get dragged in, and in the earnest discussion that follows one cannot but be edified and often very much instructed. Subjects relating to a more rational life and education for the poor and unlearned interest me and arouse my enthusiasm.
Followed by the sailors carrying the muskets, the two captains walked over the soft, springy floor of mats, and seated themselves facing the young man. His eye lit up at the sight of the arms, and then he desired Ross to tell his men to withdraw. Then as the sound of their footsteps died away, he looked at Cayse and said briefly "Go on, capèn. You talk." Cayse went into the subject at once.
"It would be like putting it into their heads to be false," I said to myself; and then, as the great fellow looked at me inquiringly, I continued aloud "Try and protect my father if you can, Han." He gave me a quick look, and the tears stood in his eyes. "Han die for capen and Mass' George," he said.
Two more were selected, despite the protests of Captain Parson, who was raging like a madman, and hurried aboard the frigate. The fourth man halted in the procession was Job, the colored cook. "Stop, sir, I want you!" said the English officer. "Want me, Capen? oh, golly! I ain't a Britisher!" cried Job, gesticulating wildly. "Do I look like I war a Britisher?
Why you no run away?" "How could I?" "How you could? You ought run, jump in libber and go 'cross. Wish I run and tell de capen an' Mass' Morgan." "Ah!" I ejaculated. "You tie too tight, Mass' George?" "Yes, but I was thinking of something else. Pomp, those Indians are going to attack our place and the settlement, and no one will know they are coming."
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