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Don't you bother; Cap'n Am'zon's here and he'll take care of you till I get back. Betty Gallup'll be here by six or a little after to do the work. You can have her stop at night, if you want to." "But, Uncle " "Must hurry, Louise," hastily said Cap'n Abe as he heard the bedcords creak and the patter of the girl's feet on the matting.
Uncle Amazon and I will make out if he comes." "Oh! Ah! 'Hem!" said Cap'n Abe, clearing his throat. He stooped to pick up a dropped potlid and came up very red in the face. "You needn't borrow any trouble on that score, Cap'n Am'zon's as good a cook as I be." Only twice did Cap'n Abe make forced trips into the shop.
Them's Bet Gallup's notions, Cap'n Am'zon's all right, to my way o' thinkin'. I was talkin' about Cap'n Abe." "I do not understand you at all, then," said the puzzled girl. "I see you don't just foller me," he replied patiently. "I ain't casting no alligators at your Uncle Am'zon. It's Cap'n Abe. I doubt his goin' to sea at all. I bet he never shipped aboard that craft his brother tells about."
"Well, I'd like to see Cap'n Amazon," Lawford said lightly, "if only for the sake of asking him a question or two." "You'll likely get your wish," returned the storekeeper tartly. "What d'ye mean?" drawled Milt Baker, who always bobbed up serenely. "Ye don't say Cap'n Am'zon's likely to show up here at Cardhaven after all these years?" There was barely a second's hesitation on Mr. Silt's part.
I did fancy bein' Cap'n Am'zon 'stead o' myself. And the worst of it is, Niece Louise, I can't have nothin' new to tell 'bout Cap'n Am'zon's adventures. He's drowned, an' he can't never go rovin' no more." "But think of what you've done, Cap'n Abe," Louise urged. "You feared the sea and you overcame that fear.
I had a feelin' that I'd swoon away an' fall right down in my tracks if I undertook to face such a sea as that was t'other day. "And see! Nothing of the kind happened! I knew I'd got to make good Cap'n Am'zon's character, or not hold up my head in Cardhaven again. I don't dispute I've been a hi-mighty liar, Niece Louise. But but it's sort o' made a man o' me for once, don't ye think? "I dunno.
"Our father me an' Am'zon's was Cap'n Joshua Silt of the schooner Bravo. Hi-mighty trim and taut craft she was, from all accounts. I I warn't born when he died," added Cap'n Abe, hesitatingly. "You were a posthumous child!" said Louise. "Er I guess so. Kinder 'pindlin', too. Yes! yes! Cap'n Am'zon's ahead o' me in ev'ry way. When father died 'twas pretty average hard on mother," Cap'n Abe pursued.
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