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Updated: June 29, 2025
Peace descended on her which she had never known before in her feverish dreams, peace and a happy expectation. She had not listened to Abe's reading, but some words of it had caught her ear. The phrase "delectable mountains" for one.
The expressman set his clumsy boot upon it. "Whee! 'Ware below!" yelled Amiel Perdue. To recover his footing Perry let go of the chest. It fell to the floor with a mighty crash, landing upon one corner and bursting open. During the long years it had stood in Cap'n Abe's storeroom the wood had suffered dry rot. "Land o' Liberty an' all han's around!" bawled the irrepressible Milt Baker.
It seems Cap'n Amazon had not brought his own sea chest; only a "dunnage bag," as he called it. "But there's plenty of Abe's duds about," he said; "and we're about of a size." When Louise went to unpack her trunks she found a number of things in the storeroom more interesting even than her own pretty summer frocks.
The thirty days succeeding Morris Perlmutter's visit to Madison Street were busy ones for all the Kronbergs. Alex had accompanied Max Gershon to Bridgetown, where conditions more than fulfilled Abe's glowing account, and the formation of the Kronberg-Gershon Drygoods Company proceeded without delay.
He found a trail that he had used several times before, when he had been working for the Diamond H and necessity or whim had sent him this way, and rode it, noting that it seemed to have been used much, lately. "I reckon old Abe's poundin' his horses considerable. Why, it's right plain," he added, after a little reflection, "this here trail runs into the Lazette trail, down near the ford.
"Abe, if you ain't drunk or crazy tell thet over," ordered Abe's interlocutor. With some show of resentment and more of dignity Abe reiterated his former statement. "If he's Buck Duane how'n hell did you get hold of his gun?" bluntly queried the cowboy. "Why he set down thar an' he kind of hid his face on his hand. An' I grabbed his gun an' got the drop on him."
She suddenly kissed him in gratitude, impostor though she knew him to be, and then ran away. Cap'n Joab hissed across the counter: "Ye don't know that Cap'n Abe's on that there craft, Am'zon Silt!"
She possessed a thin and aquiline nose, however, the nostrils fairly quivering with eagerness and curiosity. "Land sakes!" she was saying. "I know Cap'n Abe's been talkin' of goin' away the longest spell! But so suddent 'twixt night and mornin' as ye might say " "Exactly," said Cap'n Amazon dryly, and went on counting the pins from the box into a paper sack. "What 'bout the girl that's come here?
He told me, just a while ago, that the war'll make him rich, 'cause he's smart enough to use it for his own good. But he said I mustn't talk about that," she added, with a sudden realization that Josie was regarding her curiously. "Abe an' me's chums, an' what he says is between us. P'raps he was only jokin', 'bout gettin' rich. Abe's a great joker, anyhow."
Not much welcome for me in Ardevora, I b'law, though I do love every stone of her streets. But there's one there that didn' forget me in my captivity, and won't despise me in these here rags. I wish I'd seen Abe's face when I jumped aboard the boat. Poor old Abe! but all's fair in love and war, I reckon. He can't be here till to-morrow at earliest, so let's have a pipe o' baccy on it."
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