The Belted Seas

Snow piles against Pemberton’s doors, the surf thunders—and Stevey Todd insists it is only “brisk.” Captain Thomas Buckingham gives the storm his own verdict: “She blows all right.”

On the shore of Long Island Sound, Pemberton’s small hotel is a warm anchorage for old sailors and their stories. One winter afternoon, Captain Buckingham recalls the restless young man he was: at eighteen, he left Greenough for the ships of New York, despite Madge Pemberton’s quiet question, “Why?” At the docks, the sight of the Hebe Maitland draws him aboard—and into the company of a grave, precise stranger named Clyde. Years later, the captain says he made a mistake somewhere. What happened aboard that ship to make him say so?

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