and
journeyed north to South Harniss and his wife. A week he remained at
home with her, then returned to the Olive S. and took up his command and
its duties as if nothing had happened. But what had happened changed his
whole life. He became more taciturn, a trifle less charitable, a little
harder and more worldly. Before the catastrophe he had been interested
in business success and the making of money chiefly because of his plans
for his daughter's future. Now he worked even harder because it helped
him to forget. He became sole owner of the Olive S., then of other
schooners. People spoke of him as one destined to become a wealthy man.

Jane lived only a few years after her marriage. She died at the birth of
her second child, who died with her. Her first, a boy, was born a year
after the elopement. She wrote her mother to tell that news and Olive
answered the letter. She begged permission of her husband to invite Jane
and the baby to visit the old home. At first Zelotes said no, flatly;
the girl had made her bed, let her lie in it. But a year later he had
so far relented as to give reluctant consent for Jane and the child to
come, provided her condemned husband did not accompany them. "If that
low-lived Portygee sets foot on my premises, so help me God, I'll
kill him!" declared the captain. In his vernacular all foreigners were
"Portygees."

But Jane was as proud and stubborn as he. Where her husband was not
welcome she would not go. And a little later she had gone on the longest
of all journeys. Speranza did not notify her parents except to send a
clipped newspaper account of her death and burial, which arrived a week
after the latter had taken place. The news prostrated Olive, who was ill
for a month. Captain Zelotes bore it, as he had borne the other great
shock, with outward calm and quiet. Yet a year afterward he suddenly
announced his determination of giving up the sea and his prosperous and
growing shipping business and of spending the rest of his days on the
Cape.

Olive was delighted, of course. Riches--that is, more than a comfortable
competency--had no temptations for her. The old house, home of three
generations of Snows, was painted, repaired and, to some extent,
modernized. For another year Captain Zelotes "loafed," as he called it,
although others might have considered his activities about the place
anything but that. At the end of that year he surprised every one by
buying from the heirs of the estat