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Seeing that they had been saved by the king, and the city had been taken by his good counsel, the people became more than ever attached to him. They set the royal crown upon his head, and gave him Adoniah, the widow of Kikanos to wife.
"Josiah Pott!" she said at last. "I'd think you'd be ashamed telling such things!" "It ain't nothing more than what Adoniah told, and it happened just as I spun it. You used to think what Adoniah said was all right." The minister sobered instantly. "But it ain't right defaming the dead like that." "I ain't defaming no one. Don't get mad, Clemmie. Adoniah told the yarn himself."
All these years Father has been safe only because Adoniah Phillips refused years ago to disclose his identity. It's awful, Sis, but true." "It's too awful to be true! It seems like a horrible dream." "You have no idea what agony it has cost me. Do you think you can go through it with me?" "I'll try, Harold. But, oh, it's hard!" "Yes."
"Beth, I'm bound by my word to say nothing. That was the one promise I made to Adoniah." "Adoniah!" exclaimed the girl, her eyes growing wide. "Yes. I did not mean to speak his name, but it can do no harm." "Why, that was the first name Is he the same man Harold is trying to find?" "I'm sorry to say that he is." "The one whose last name was Phillips?" "Yes.
"No, you bet he didn't. And what's more, he won't come prowling round again, either." The Captain told his housekeeper the whole story. He passed as lightly as he could over the part where Adoniah had married the trader's daughter. Miss Pipkin gave no sign that she cared in the least, or that the news had shocked her. But when the Captain rehearsed the treachery of Mr. James Fox, she grew rigid.
"He done that, I cal'late, but as far as him being a sailor " He sniffed a contemptuous conclusion. "How many years ago was it that he followed the seas?" "I ain't able to say, exactly, but it wa'n't long after Adoniah left home." "Cap'n Pott, Mr. Fox knew your half-brother after they had both left this country." "How do you know that?" "Just by putting two and two together."
To ease your mind I'll go under an assumed name, if you say so. But I must get my data at the source concerning this man Adoniah Phillips, if " The Elder was sipping his coffee, and his cup fell into the saucer with a crash, breaking both fragile pieces into fragments. The contents were sprayed over the linen, and drops stained the Elder's white waistcoat. "Father!" cried Elizabeth.
They hastened and stripped off each man his upper garment, and cast them all in a heap upon the ground, making a high place, on top of which they set Moses. Then they blew with trumpets, and called out before him: "Long live the king! Long live the king!" And all the people and the nobles swore unto him to give him Adoniah for wife, the Ethiopian queen, the widow of Kikanos.
Harold says the time is up on it next Saturday." "Josiah!" "I also talked with another friend of mine who knew Jim purty well in his palmy days, and he says what that letter of yours says is so. He told me a lot more stuff, too." "What? About Jim or Adoniah?" "Both. What would you do if there wa'n't no way to save my place excepting by ruination of the other feller?"
The minister placed a chair before the grate and slid another near. For some time the two men sat looking into the fire. As Mr. McGowan tossed in another stick of wood, he turned toward the seaman. "I did not know that you had a brother by the name of Adoniah," he said. "It ain't often I make mention of him. I wa'n't over fond of him. He didn't treat Clemmie fair.
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