But I trust they have been wise enough not to put out to sea and are safe in harbor some where." "I hope so, indeed," she responded, fervently, "for we have much precious freight aboard of her.

But the sky does not look very threatening to me, Levis." "Does it not?
I wish I could say the same.

But, little wife, are you weatherwise or otherwise ?" he asked, laughingly.
"Not wise in any way except as I may lay claim to the wisdom of my other half," she returned, adopting his sportive tone.
"Ah," she exclaimed the next moment, "I, too, begin to see some indications of a storm; it is growing very dark yonder in the northeast!" Betty came hurrying up, panting and frightened.

"O captain, be a dear, good man, and say you don't think we are to have a storm directly--before Bob and the rest get safe to shore!" "I should be glad to oblige you, Betty," he said, "but I cannot say that; and what would it avail if I did?
Could my opinion stay the storm ?" "Zoe will be frightened to death about Edward," she said, turning her face seaward again as she spoke, and gazing with tear-dimmed eyes at the black, threatening cloud fast spreading from horizon to zenith, "and I--oh, Bob is nearer to me than any other creature on earth!" "Let us hope for the best, Betty," the captain said, kindly; "it is quite possible, perhaps I might say probable, that the Edna is now lying at anchor in some safe harbor, and will stay there till this storm is over." "Oh, thank you for telling me that!" she cried.

"I'll just try to believe it is so and not fret, though it would pretty nearly kill me if anything should happen to Bob.