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"Yes, there ain't no doubt about that. I've told you a million times, if I have once, to tuck your napkin round your neck when you've got your Sunday clothes on. And there you be this minute without a sign of a napkin." "Why, Laviny! I MUST have it round my neck. I know I " "Don't be so foolish! Think I'm blind? Can't I see you ain't got it? Now where is it?"
However, that ain't my only plan. He and Laviny ain't got any mortgage on the marryin' business. Other folks can do it as well as them. What do you think of Hannah Poundberry?" "What do I think of her? What do you mean?" "Never mind what I mean. Just you keep that in your head, Mr. Ellery.
You remember that I asked you, as man to man, 'What do you think of Hannah Poundberry? Yes, yes, Laviny, I'm a-comin'. They want me to ask you to marry 'em," he added. "I s'pose you'll have to. But say, Mr. Ellery, when you do, just tell Pratt that your usual price for the job is ten dollars. That'll spile his honeymoon for him, or I miss my guess."
The house of the nearest neighbor being several hundred yards away, the likelihood of being overheard was improbable; but the minister came back, nevertheless. "You see, Mr. Ellery," stammered Kyan, "I I'd like to have you come in fust rate, but er Laviny she's got the key." Ellery was surprised. "She has!" he exclaimed. "Um hm, she's got it. She took it with her." "But there are other doors.
No welcoming light in the dining-room windows, no open door, no shrill voice demanding to know where the wandering brother had been "all this everlastin' time." Even the hens had gone to roost. Abishai groaned. "Oh, dear!" he wailed. "I'm scart to death. Where is she? You don't cal'late she's done it, do ye?" "Done it? Done what?" "Done the suicidin'. She said she would if O Laviny!" "Hush!
Some brothers would have ripped up the eternal foundations afore they'd have let their sister break up their home and desert 'em for a stiff-necked, bald-headed old shoe peddler like " "Hush! hush! Mr. Pepper. You forget " "No, I don't forget, nuther. Mr. Ellery, you don't know it all. When Laviny come to me and told me what she was goin' to do, was I obstinate?
"Laviny Marthy was my wife that was," he added, by way of explanation. John Kendrick said very little; in fact, he was noticeably silent during dinner. Miss Timpson said afterward: "That Mr. Kendrick isn't much of a talker, is he?
Do tell us; which was it, really, Captain Dott?" Daniel, staggering before this point blank attack, hesitated. "Why," he stammered, "it was it was " He looked appealingly at Serena. "Why don't you answer Mrs. Black?" inquired his wife, rather sharply. "It was my Aunt Laviny," said the captain. Mrs. Black nodded and smiled. "Oh! your aunt!" she exclaimed. "There! isn't that funny!
Why, that's that's the cousin; the one Aunt Laviny cut out of her will; the one that would have had all this place and all the money if we hadn't got it. I thought he was in New York somewhere. Black said he was, and now he's here. What in the world does he want?" Mrs. Dott rose. "I don't know," she gasped. "I can't imagine. But I suppose we must see him. We've got to.
"What happened her?" asked the man laconically. "He says she ran into an iceberg in clear day, bust up, and sank with all hands, inside of a minute." "Rot!" replied the practical sailor. "The 'Laviny' had collision bulkheads, and couldn't have sunk in no sich time, ef she could at all. 'Sides Cap'n Phinney ain't no man to run down a berg in clear day, nor yet in the night, nor no other time.
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