Chapter Sixteen (Hero Today Gone Tomorrow)
I have just found out that Captain can follow my lady anywhere, he says he is going with her to be honored by the current citizens of Schooner Bay. I do not know what this means only that Captain is very proud.
Carolyn is very mad when she returns and they fight again. Captain was not honored, he says the other man is a coward. Carolyn pauses in her anger to listen to Captain. Then they decide to work together but he asks her to do the work! I do not understand that concept. At breakfast the next morning I see that Jonathan knows the truth because Captain has told him. I still do not know why the others don't see him. Carolyn is distracted, obviously by the Captain and his complaining. She blames me for eating her toast and I am offended! I try to tell with my cries that I did no such thing! She knows this is true when she finds her toast in her carry thing. Then she leaves for town.
I hear Captain and Carolyn talk again, he is still upset. He is determined to prove the town lady wrong and tells Carolyn so. He challenges her as a writer, and she says she will go and talk to the Scared One. Captain decides to follow her into town, I hope he can figure this out. I do not like it when he is upset.
Captain is still angry and distracting Carolyn. He does not want her to write this thing of hers. The town lady visits, I do not think I like her. She looks down on all of us, and gets mad at Carolyn.
They argue again. This is getting to be normal for them. It seems Captain has taken something that he shouldn't. I guess he does that from time to time. He tells her he knows where a man is buried, I guess that is what they are arguing about this time. She agrees to go with him to look.
Finally they are happy again. Captain tells me he caused a storm at the place where the other man is buried and says he revealed the truth. Turns out the other man was what Captain said. Captain tells Carolyn a story and she is enraptured, happy with him. Jonathan calls the Captain a real hero, Captain is very pleased. He is starting to act like Jonathan's father. Does he really feel that way?