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"What of it?" retorted the cook. "She is a fine lady and a pretty lady." "So Tunis Latham think heh?" demanded Eunez fiercely. "And why not?" grinned Johnny. "Bah! Has not all gone wrong with that Seamew ever since she sail in the schooner?" demanded the girl. "An anchor chain breaks; a rope parts; you lost a topmast yes? How about Tony?
That was why he got along so well with them and they liked to work for him. Many of the Big Wreck Cove folk looked upon them even now as "furriners" who had to be shouted at if one would make them understood. "What does she come for?" asked Eunez sharply. "They need her up there. Mrs. Ball is feeble and so is the captain. She is going to live with them right along."
"If the Seamew is a Jonahed schooner, it is because of something different. Yes!" "Bah!" cried Eunez, yet with continued eagerness. "Tell me what it may be if it is not that girl with the evil eye?" "Ask 'Rion Latham," whispered Johnny. "You know him huh?" The Portygee girl looked for a moment rather taken aback. Then she said, tossing her head: "What if I do know 'Rion?"
Many little things had marred the fair course of the Seamew and her captain's business. He, however, shook his head. "Not that pretty girl yonder," he said, "has brought bad luck to the Seamew. No, no!" "What, then?" asked Eunez, staring sidewise at him from eyes which seemed almost green. "See!" said Johnny, seizing her wrist.
"Ask him," repeated Johnny Lark. "He is cousin of our captain. He knows if anybody knows what is the trouble with the Seamew." And he shook his head. Eunez stared at him. "You know something you do not tell me, Juan?" "Ask 'Rion Latham," the cook said again, and left her at the door of the church.
Tunis left the mate and Horry to carry on while he took the passenger ashore, meaning to spend the night himself at home with Aunt Lucretia. He stopped to get Eunez Pareta's father to harness up his old horse and transfer Miss Bostwick's trunk and bag to the Ball homestead. Eunez was in evidence as she always was when Tunis came by a bird of paradise indeed.
"Who wouldn't, if they got the chance?" "Si?" Eunez commented sibilantly. Naturally, many people besides Eunez Pareta in and about Big Wreck Cove were interested in the coming of the stranger to Cap'n Ira Ball's.
As he drew near to Portygee Town, he glanced toward the open door of Pareta's cottage and saw the girl, Eunez, seated upon the step. She did not come out to meet him, as had been her wont, but she hailed him as he approached though in a sharper tone than usual. "So Captain Tunis Latham has still another girl? He is a lion with the ladies, it is plain to be seen. Ah!"
The color flashed into her dark cheek, and her black eyes reflected some unexplained anger. Beside her, leaning against the house wall, was the handle end of a broken oar. Tunis chanced to mark that there was a streak of dull blue paint on it. "You have sharp eyes. Tunis Latham," hissed the girl. "Not all of the Lathams are too proud to walk with Eunez Pareta or too proud to think of her.
Eunez smiled in a way which might have puzzled Tunis Latham had he stopped to consider it. But he joined the girl who was waiting for him, and they went on up the road and out of the town without his giving a backward glance or thought to the fiery Portygee girl. When they mounted to the windswept headland the visitor looked about with glowing eyes, breathing deeply.
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