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Overwhelmed the Cape Codder had risen to his feet. "Chicago! Pittsburgh! Medford! My eye, but this will do me to talk about until the day of my death. It don't seem possible; I'm beat if it does." Helplessly he dropped back into his chair again, silenced by very wonder.
"I quarreled with the ten Hutchinsons. I am very sorry. They laughed at me too much for being a little girl and a Cape Codder, but they could if they wanted to, but when they laughed at Aunt Margaret for adopting me and the tears came in her eyes I could not bare it. I did not let the cat out of the bag, but I made it jump out.
Freeman she had charge of the upper decks in the "Old Home" and was rated head chambermaid up and quit, and being as we couldn't get another capable Cape Codder just then, Peter fetched down a woman from New York; one that a friend of old Dillaway's recommended.
Then, as if to make escape impossible, a sudden gale came up and the longboat was smashed by the surf. "I guess that settles it," ruefully observed the second mate, "another Cape Codder, from Hyannis. Cal'late we'll stay here for a spell now, hey, Cap'n." "For a spell, yes," replied Nat. "We'll stay here until we get another craft to set sail in, and no longer." "Another craft? ANOTHER one?
Far be it from me to say a word against Sylvester, as a lawyer, but he is subject to impressions. I imagine this Cape Codder made him laugh, and, therefore, in his opinion, is all right. I'm glad I'm not a joker." The captain said that he would be down later on to talk things over. Meanwhile, if the "papers and such" could be gotten together, it would "sort of help along."
So, too, did Miss Graham. "You don't look like a lighthouse keeper," continued the former. "Oh, I don't mean your clothes!" noticing the young man's embarrassed glance at his wet and far from immaculate garments. "I mean the way you talk and act. You ain't been here long, have you?" "No." "Just come this summer?" "Yes." "I thought so. You ain't a Cape Codder?" "No." "I was sure you wa'n't.
The captain's grin was as wide as Annie's. "Oh," he explained, "I couldn't let 'em all go. Never intended to. That five thousand dollar codder up there seemed like own folks, pretty nigh. I'd have kept him, if we had to live in one room and a trunk. And we ain't got to that yet. I tell you, dearie, I thought they'd make you feel more to home. And they do, don't they?"
His wife, a sweet-faced Englishwoman, made Hephzy's acquaintance and Hephzy liked her extremely. "She's as nice as she can be," declared Hephzy. "If it wasn't that she says 'Fancy! and 'Really! instead of 'My gracious! and 'I want to know! I should think I was talking to a Cape Codder, the best kind of one. She's got sense, too. SHE don't ask about 'red Indians' in Bayport."
Why these new men should be more troubled by the silly tattle of the hoodoo than even the Portygees had been was a problem Tunis could not solve. And seamen were so scarce just then in Boston that he had been obliged to risk another voyage without engaging strangers to man the Seamew. Besides, being a true Cape Codder, he disliked hiring other than Cape men to work the schooner.
Still, you can omit 'em since they serve no particular purpose." "But what is the message? What does it say?" clamored Walter all impatience. "Well, it ain't so thrillin' you need to go into a thousand pieces over it," commented the Cape Codder dryly. "Some friend of Mr. Crowninshield's 'pears to be comin' down here on the afternoon train bringin' with him his wife either his wife or daughter."
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