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He was not sure, perhaps, whether he would join the ship Cap'n Amazon recommended, so why should he not send his chest by express?" "Cap'n Am'zon! Humph!" sniffed Betty. "Nobody knows whether that's his name or not. He comes here without a smitch of clo'es, as near as I can find out." Louise was amused; yet she was somewhat vexed as well.
The Professor was about to step into the opening to learn what it meant, when Bippo burst into the apartment, the picture of fright and terror. "Going to kill us!" was his alarming exclamation; "make me run almost kill me!" "Where's Pedros?" asked Long. "He scared run into woods won't come back run all way to Am'zon!"
"Captain Abram Silt?" "No, ma'am; I ain't. I'm Cap'n Am'zon, his brother. What can I do for you?" he repeated. The explanation of his identity may have been becoming tedious; at least, Cap'n Amazon gave it grimly. "Is is my niece, Louise Grayling, here?" queried the lady, her voice actually trembling, her gaze glued to the figure behind the counter. "'Hem!" said the captain, clearing his throat.
"I 'member hearin' Cap'n Am'zon tell 'bout a dry spell like this," began Cap'n Abe, leaning his hairy fists upon the counter. "Twas when he was ashore once at Teneriffe " "Don't I hear Mandy a-callin' me?" Milt Baker suddenly demanded, making for the door. "I gotter git over home myself," said Cap'n Joab apologetically. "Me, too," said Washy, rising. "'Tis chore time."
How jolly!" exclaimed Louise, clasping her hands. "Ye-as. Ain't it? Jest," Cap'n Abe said. "Ahem! your father never spoke of Cap'n Am'zon?". "I don't believe daddy-prof even knew there was such a person." "Mebbe not. Mebbe not," Cap'n Abe agreed hastily. "And not to be wondered at. You see, Am'zon went to sea when he was only jest a boy." "Did he?" "Yep.
Well! what do you think of your Uncle Am'zon?" "I can express no opinion until I have met him," Louise returned, again dimpling. "Haven't ye seen him?" gasped Betty in astonishment. "Not yet." "Ye didn't see him when he came last night?" "I was in bed." "Then how how d'ye know Cap'n Abe's gone? Or that this man is Am'zon Silt?
"You take my advice, young man," Cap'n Abe said, with sternness, "and belay that sort o' talk afore Cap'n Am'zon when he does come. He's lived a rough sort o' life. He's nobody's tame cat. Doubt his word and he's jest as like as not to take ye by the scruff of the neck and duck ye in the water butt." There was a general laugh.
"For fourteen days while the Posy Lass was drivin' off shore before an easterly gale, Cap'n Am'zon an' two others, lashed to the stump o' the fo'mast, ex-isted in a smother of foam an' spume, with the waves picklin' 'em ev'ry few minutes. And five raw potaters was all they had to eat in all that endurin' time!" "Five potatoes?" Lawford Tapp cried. "For three men? And for fourteen days?
And I made up he went to sea when he was twelve like I told ye, my dear. Ye-as. I did hate to lie to ye, an' you just new-come here. But I'd laid my plans for a long while back just to walk out, as it were, an' let these fellers 'round here have a taste o' Cap'n Am'zon Silt that they'd begun to doubt was ever comin' to Cardhaven.
This other feller this Cap'n Am'zon Silt, as he calls himself. But I thought 'twas Cap'n Abe's step I heard. He says: 'Oh! you've found the letter? I declare I thought 'twas your uncle's voice!" "But it was my uncle's voice, of course," Louise reminded her, much amused, "Cap'n Amazon Silt is my uncle, too." "Humph! I s'pose so. Looks to be. If 'tis him.
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