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I 'd give ten dollars right now to tell him the rest of what I had to say . '' After this the Captain went fishing every day , and when at home refused to see anybody not known personally . But the agitation went on , for the papers fed the flames , and in Boston they were raising a purse to buy gold watches and medals for him and for Captain Davis . Shortly after four o'clock one afternoon of the week following that of the wreck , Captain Eri ventured to walk up to the village , keeping a weather eye out for reporters and smoking his pipe . He made several stops , one of them being at the schoolhouse where Josiah , now back at his desk , was studying overtime to catch up with his class . As the Captain was strolling along , someone touched him from behind , and he turned to face Ralph Hazeltine . The electrician had been a pretty regular caller at the house of late , but Captain Eri had seen but little of him , for reasons unnecessary to state .