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All that day the judge and the junior members of the Tribe watched anxiously for the falling of the wind. The judge was concerned about Mrs. Dalrymple, who had no way of knowing where he and the twins were, and the Winnebagos and Sandwiches had about all they could stand of Antha and Anthony. Besides, the food was getting monotonous.
I think that Antha has been dropped at our door as a special opportunity, and I think that we should take it. "If you folks decide that Antha and her brother may come I will appoint myself her special 'big sister, and will devote my time to her improvement. So instead of voting 'no, I wish to vote 'yes." "Your point is well taken, Miss Orator," said Mr. Evans with unexplained warmth.
Abbie saw them when they turned in at her gate Pastor Lucus Lorina Inman, Antha Ewell, and Aunt Alphie Newberry. Abbie walked to the center of the parlor and stood there, her hands clenched, her face set. The door-bell rang; for a moment her body swayed. Then she went into the bay window and drew the blinds aside. Antha Ewell saw her and jerked Pastor Lucus's arm.
"There now!" said Antha triumphantly. "Well, anyway," went on Anthony, "you yelled as loud as you could yell, and I didn't." Antha promptly burst into tears. "Cry baby, cry baby," mocked her brother. Gladys and Hinpoha bore the weeping Antha away to one of the tents and the Sandwich boys took Anthony under their wing.
"You would make a famous criminal lawyer. You have a line of argument which admits of very little defense. Does anyone else speak for Antha? "I speak for her," said the quiet Nakwisi unexpectedly. Nakwisi admired Katherine intensely, and desired to follow her lead in all things. "Two have spoken for her," said Mr. Evans judiciously. "Will there be another?"
Just then a searchlight that had been set up on the beach fell upon him. It was Judge Dalrymple. "Papa!" cried Antha, starting up. The judge whirled around, startled. "Where did you come from?" he asked. Antha dragged him over to the rest and then there were more exclamations of astonishment that the judge had also been a victim of the wreck.
Evans has just fallen asleep after being up all night with a jumping tooth; I can't ask her to go." Then her eye fell on Antha, swinging in the hammock. "I don't suppose I could send Antha over with it," she said to herself, remembering how Antha always clung to the others, and had never been out in a boat by herself.
"I didn't either," contradicted Antha. "It was you that yelled the loudest and you know it was. Papa told you to keep still." "Didn't either," declared Anthony. "Did, too!" said Antha, stamping her foot. "Didn't he, Papa?" And she interrupted her father right in the midst of his conversation with Mr. Evans. "Yes, yes, dear," answered the judge absently, and went on talking.
And when Katherine went farther and invited her to be her special helper in everything, and offered to show her where the oven bird's nest was that everybody was looking for, Antha declined to come along, preferring to go into the kitchen where dinner was being prepared.
John, and the rest of the folks are the Tribe." "We are greatly indebted to your husbands for rescuing us," said the judge with a courtly bow to the ladies. "We are very glad they were able to do it," said Mrs. Evans, "and we welcome you to Ellen's Isle." The Winnebagos and Sandwiches looked with interest at the twins, Antha and Anthony.
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