Chapter Nine
While Lucky was gone to see to his preparations, Mary-Michael worked on a list of questions to ask him about the interior finish of the galley and cabins, then worked on the sail plans until he returned. Hopefully he managed to make it far enough away from the house before anyone noticed him as he walked back to his ship. Second to having a child, the thing she most wanted was never to bring shame onto her husband or child. Several of her friends in the home when she was growing up were sailors’ by-blows. It was inevitable living in a port town. And her dearest friend, Becky, was one of them. Becky’s mother died shortly after she was born. When the man her mother had been married to returned from sea, he placed the infant Becky in the home saying the child wasn’t his. He then
