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"But maybe you won't feel so much like laughin' in the morning." In spite of herself, Billie shivered a little, and the other girls looked frightened. "If I was you," the driver went on with his unasked advice, "I'd turn right back an' spend the night in Roland. There's a boardin' house " "Nonsense, we're not going to turn back," spoke up Mrs.
No sooner had the two entered the house than Willis Ford began. "Mrs. Barton," he said, "I'll tell you now what brought me here." "Go ahead," said the lady, encouragingly. "I want you to take the boy I have brought with me to board." "Land sakes! I don't keep a boardin' house!" "No; but if I will make it worth your while you will take him, won't you?" "How much will you give?" asked Mrs.
"As I look back on't now," he began, "it kind o' seems as if it must 'a' ben some other feller, an' yet I remember it all putty dum'd well too all but one thing, an' that the biggist part on't, an' that is how I ever come to git married at all. She was a widdo' at the time, an' kep' the boardin' house where I was livin'. It was up to Syrchester.
She plucked 'em too clost, and they was around fryin' in the sun scand'lous; but I don't surmise as she knew no better." "In course not. Ye know Miss Lester's boardin' some folks 't Gov'ment sent down t' inspect the lighthouse. It's a young man, an' he brought his wife, an' after he'd finished his job they liked it so well they're jest stayin' on, cruisin' 'round an' playin' tricks on each other.
"Ase, are the folks in this town sayin' a word against Phoebe Dawes because she comes here to see Bos'n?" "Don't don't get mad, Whit. Don't look at me like that. I ain't said nothin'. Why, a spell ago, at the boardin' house, I " He told of the meal at the perfect boarding house where Miss Dawes championed his friend's cause. Also of the conversation which followed, and his own part in it.
"Why, they're all right," she owned, "good as gold, take 'em on their own ground. I found out they were good as gold that winter I went up an' passed Sunday with Mis' Denny. But take 'em together, boardin', an' what one don't think of t'other will. This summer 'twas growin' fleshy, an' if they didn't harp on that one string well, suz!" Mrs. Pray nodded her head solemnly.
I asked him why he did n't take Gran'ma Mullins to board with him, if he was so wild to get her away from Lucy, but he said he did n't think it'd be proper, an' I said I did n't say nothin' about bed I just spoke about board, an' if there was anythin' as was n't proper about boardin' Gran'ma Mullins he'd ought not to of mentioned the subject to me." "What " asked Mrs. Lathrop.
Why, I'm expectin' a boardin' party any minute," he added. "I thought when you knocked it was 'papa' comin' for his child. You'd better go." But she stood still. "I shan't go," she declared. "Or, at least, not until you promise to let me try to help you. If they come, so much the better. They'll learn where my sympathies are." Captain Cy scratched his head. "See here, Miss Phoebe," he said.
One night he was awakened by a noise in his room. In the darkness he saw a man fumbling among his things, and in an instant he had seized his revolver from the stand at his bedside and covered the intruder. Then he calmly demanded: "Now, what are you doing here?" "I'm lookin' for a boardin' house," replied the other, sullenly. "You're just a plain thief that's all."
"But I insist that the money is yours, daddy. My fairy godmother paid it to you for keeping, clothing, and educating me. It is not mine." "You talk like I was a boardin' school instead o' bein' your guardeen. No, siree; it's your money, an' that ends it. You git it when you're twenty-one." "We'll see, daddy," she replied, a stubborn light in her dark eyes.
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