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Captain Crayme got up and paced his little stateroom two or three times, with a face full of uncertainty. At last he replied: "Well, between old friends, Fred, I don't think so very strongly myself. Hang it! I wish I'd been brought up a preacher, or something of the kind, so I wouldn't have had business ruining my chances of being the right sort of a family man.
Crayme should have a sober husband; for Fred was alternately cross, moody, abstracted, and inattentive, and even sullenly remarked at his breakfast-table one morning that he shouldn't be sorry if the Excellence were to blow up, and leave Mrs. Crayme to find her happiness in widowhood.
I feel as if I was just being introduced. Didn't anybody else help?" "Yes," said Fred, "a woman; but you've got a wife, too." Crayme fell back on his pillow and sighed. "If I could only think about her, Fred! But I can't; whisky's the only thing that comes into my mind." "Can't think about her!" exclaimed Fred; "why, are you acquainted with her yet, I wonder?
Crayme's happiness had been frightening some of her years away, and her smile carried Sam himself back to his pre-marital period as she said: "Never mind the rest; I see you don't want me to go," and then she became Mrs. Crayme again as she said, pressing her face closely to her husband's breast, "but I hope you won't get any freight, anywhere, so you can get home all the sooner."
Then he borrowed the barkeeper's violin, and played the airs which had been his favorites in the days of his courtship, until Crayme exclaimed: "Say, Fred, we're not playing church; give us something that don't bring all of a fellow's dead friends along with it."
Crayme was already under the influence of more liquor than was necessary to his well-being, and the boat carried as passengers a couple of men, who, though professional gamblers, Crayme found very jolly company when they were not engaged in their business calling.
"They're too far gone to stop; I suppose that's the reason," said Fred. "It hasn't been easy work for me to keep my promise, Ettie, and I'm a young man; Moshier and Crayme are middle-aged men, and liquor is simply necessary to them." "That dreadful old Bunley wasn't too old to reform, it seems," said Esther. "Fred, I believe one reason is that no one has asked them to stop.
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