Chapter 1. How Mark Strong Wanted To Go
_ CHAPTER ONE. HOW MARK STRONG WANTED TO GO
"Go with me, Mark? What for? To live hard, work hard, and run the risk every day of having to die hard. Get out! You‘re as bad as your mother."
"Not very bad, is it, James, to wish to share my husband‘s life and cares?"
Captain Strong put down his pipe, got up from his easy-chair, crossed to the other side of the fire, and laid his hand upon Mrs Strong‘s shoulder, while she turned her pleasant sweet womanly face upward and smiled in that of the fine, manly, handsome merchant captain, tanned and reddened by many a fight with the sea.
"No, my dear," he said softly； "but it‘s a man‘s duty to face danger, a woman‘s to keep the nest snug for him and the bairns. Why, Mary, you don‘t know what the perils of the sea are."
Mrs Strong shook her head slowly, and that shake, as interpreted by her eyes, meant a great deal.
"Ah! you may look," the captain said, "but you do not； and as for this

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