Parables From Nature - Second Series #222767

And the man, advanced in years and wisdom, passed forward along the deck, and left the youth speechless among his astonished companions. No explanation was given, and not another word of outward murmuring was heard. The ship went on her way; but whether that youth, after they emerged from the heavy oppression of the tropical calms, ever sought for the solution of the old man's statement, remains unknown.