His spectacles fell from his nose into his lap and lay there unheeded.
"What?
What's that you say ?" he asked, sharply.

"Abner Barnes was your uncle?
I--I thought you said your name was Cahoon." "I said it used to be afore I was married, when I knew you.

Afterwards I married Eben Barnes, Cap'n Abner's nephew.

That made the captain my uncle by marriage." Solomon's fingers groped for his spectacles.

He picked them up and took his handkerchief from his pocket.