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After service several shook hands with them; but Louise noticed that many cast curious glances at the black silk handkerchief on Cap'n Amazon's head and did not come near. Despite his dignity and the reverence of his bearing, he did look peculiar with that 'kerchief swathing his crown. Gusty Durgin, the waitress at the Cardhaven Inn, claimed acquaintanceship after church with Louise.
"Well, I'd like to see Cap'n Amazon," Lawford said lightly, "if only for the sake of asking him a question or two." "You'll likely get your wish," returned the storekeeper tartly. "What d'ye mean?" drawled Milt Baker, who always bobbed up serenely. "Ye don't say Cap'n Am'zon's likely to show up here at Cardhaven after all these years?" There was barely a second's hesitation on Mr. Silt's part.
"Your coming here and Cap'n Amazon exchanging jobs with his brother have caused more excitement than Cardhaven and the vicinity have seen in a decade. Or at least since I have lived here." "Oh! Then are you not native to the soil?" "No, not exactly," he replied. And then after a moment he added: "It's a great old place, even in winter." "Not dull at all?" "Never dull," he reassured her.
'Am'zon' has been a name in our fambly since Cap'n Reba Silt first put the nose of his old Tigris to the tidal wave of the Am'zon River back in seventeen-forty. He come home to New Bedford and named his first boy, that was waitin' to be christened, 'Am'zon Silt. "So I called this this dream brother of mine 'Am'zon. These Cardhaven folks warn't likely to know whether I had a brother or not.
Louise was thankful for this opportunity for laughter, for that "curiousest-osity" was too much for her sense of the ludicrous. Like almost every other man of any age that Louise had met about Cardhaven save Cap'n Abe himself Washy had spent a good share of his life in deep-bottomed craft. But he had never risen higher than petty officer.
"I know ye been talkin' 'bout cruisin' around to see your folks, or the like for the longest spell. But I didn't s'pose ye re'lly meant it. And your brother comin', too! Well!" "If he can tell of his adventures as well as you relate them," laughed Lawford, "Cap'n Amazon should be an addition to the Cardhaven social whirl."
Then she crept out of bed and turned the key in the lock of her door the first time she had thought to do such a thing since her arrival at Cardhaven. "Them movin' picture people are hoppin' about The Beaches like sandpipers," observed Cap'n Amazon at the breakfast table. "And I opine they air pretty average useless, too.
"What have you already said?" "I said I expected you were waiting for me at Cardhaven. I would not come over from Paulmouth in their car, but hurried on ahead. I wished to save you the disgrace yes, disgrace! of being found here in this this country store. Ugh!" She shuddered again. "I am determined that they shall not know your poor, dear father unfortunately married beneath him."
Come here yesterday for the fust time. Lemme tell you, Miss Grayling, we've knowed Cap'n Abe around here for twenty year and more. Course, he ain't Cardhaven born; but we know him. He's as diff'rent from this pirate that calls himself Cap'n Am'zon Silt as chalk is from cheese." The mush was on the table, Louise called Cap'n Amazon from the store.
"You are, then, one of these fortunate creatures," and Bane's sweeping gesture indicated that he referred to the occupants of the cottages set along the bluff above The Beaches, "who toil not, neither do they spin. I fancied you might be one of us. Rather, I've heard that down here." "That surmise gained coinage when I first arrived at Cardhaven," Louise said, dimpling.
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