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The bos'n's smile died away, and all sat listening for the finish. Far forward sounded the cries of men dressing down the head sheets. "I hadn't much to do," continued Chips, softly, "so I walked on an' saw him stop at a flower stand an' buy a bunch av roses. I wint across to th' cemetery where th' trees are good to look at an' th' grass is green as th' sea nigh th' States.
And, besides, you're not complimentary to me. Should I, do you think, take such an interest in one who was an imbecile?" "Well, 'tis mighty good of you. Your comin' here so to help Bos'n's fight along is " "How do you know it is Bos'n altogether? I " She stopped suddenly, and the color rushed to her face. She rose from the rocker.
Meantime, we'll try to keep afloat, if the Harniss Bank don't spring a leak." On the day following this conversation he took a flying trip to Ostable, the county seat, returning the same evening, and saying nothing to anyone about his reasons for going nor what he had done while there. Bos'n's birthday was the eighteenth of November.
"Folks don't care nothing about cargo-boats," he would say, taking his pipe out of his mouth and shaking his head gravely, whenever I hinted that I would like to tell of our adventure of the Kut Sang. "They want yarns of them floating hotels called liners, with palm-gardens in 'em and bands playing at their meals and games and so on going from eight bells to the bos'n's watch.
"No sign of wind as yet," said Joe, holding up a wetted finger, "and that red sunset bespoke a calm, hot day. This odd smother o' mist may stay a couple of hours. Will ye venture it with me, Jack?" "Gladly! Over we go, before the watch is flogged awake by the bos'n's mate."
"But, as friend Heman says, the beginnin's only begun. I wish he hadn't seen you here, teacher." Miss Dawes looked up from the task of stroking poor Bos'n's hair. "I don't," she said, "I'm glad of it." Then she added, laughing nervously: "Cap'n Whittaker, how could you be so cool? It was like a play. I declare, you were just splendid!"
And Peabody he writes to his lawyer friend in Butte, Montana. And the Butte man he " "Well, the long and short of it is," cut in Tidditt, "that it looked safe and sartin that Thomas HAD married the Arizona woman while his real wife, Bos'n's ma, was livin', and had run off and left her same as he did Mary. And the funny part of it is "
Beside the children there were some older people present, Bailey and Asaph, of course, and the "regulars" from the perfect boarding house, who had been invited because it was fairly certain that Mr. Bangs wouldn't be allowed to attend if his wife did not. Miss Dawes had also been asked, at Bos'n's well-understood partiality, but she had declined.
That time, apparently, was not in the near future. The girl stayed on at the Whittaker place and grew to be more and more a part of it. At the end of the second week Captain Cy began calling her "Bos'n." "A bos'n's a mighty handy man aboard ship," he explained, "and you're so handy here that it fits in first rate. And, besides, it sounds so natural. My dad called me 'Bos'n' when I was little."
"I hope you understand, Peabody," he said. "It ain't just selfishness that makes me steer the course I'm runnin'. Course, Bos'n's got to be the world and all to me, and if she's taken away I don't know's I care a tinker's darn what happens afterwards.
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