On the way home, Captain Tolland fell in love with the woman, and they married upon reaching Dunnet Landing. She begged Captain Tolland and his colleagues to take her away from Jamaica, and they agreed, bunking her with Captain Tolland because he had the most space on his ship. To make ends meet, she had to sing and play guitar in pubs it was in one of those where her voice enchanted Captain Tolland. She was French-born, and was on her way back to France when her husband and children had been killed in a yellow fever epidemic. He met her in Kingston, Jamaica, where his ship had docked for a few nights. This story concerns the late Captain Tolland’s wife. The Tolland men were famous for their sailing skill, and many of them died at sea. Todd tells the narrator a ghost story about an old Dunnet Landing family, the Tollands. She knows this because Elijah had told her. Todd is concerned about how William and her mother will fare on Green Island because of the bad weather, but the narrator comforts her by telling her that Captain Bowden and Johnny Bowden are dropping by the island. It is the end of summer, and a storm is building off the coast.
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