Dick had put in the crop before he went, and old Abner looked after it.

The summer went by and the Four Sisters didn't come back.

The Nova Scotia Moores investigated, and found she had got to Havana and discharged her cargo and took on another and left for home; and that was all they ever found out about her.

By degrees people began to talk of Dick Moore as one that was dead.

Almost everyone believed that he was, though no one felt certain, for men have turned up here at the harbor after they'd been gone for years.