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Cahoon, whose face I could see, seemed cheerful and confident. At the back of the carriage, perched on a kind of bar and holding on tightly to the springs, was Bland. Barefooted urchins often ride in this way, and appear to enjoy themselves until the coachman lashes backwards at them with his whip.
That afternoon we walked up to the village, stopping in at Simmons's store, which is also the post-office, for the mail. Captain Cyrus Whittaker happened to be there, also Asaph Tidditt and Bailey Bangs and Sylvanus Cahoon and several others. I introduced Campbell to the crowd and he seemed to be enjoying himself.
Before bedtime it was known, from the last house in Woodchuck Lane to the fish shanties at West Bayport, that "young Cy" Whittaker had come back; that he had come back "for good"; that he was staying temporarily at the perfect boarding house; that he was "awful well off" having made lots of money down in South America; that he intended to "fix over" the Whittaker place, and that it was to be fixed over, not in a modern manner, with plush parlor sets a la Sylvanus Cahoon nor with onyx tables and blue and gold chairs like those adorning the Atkins mansion.
However, I began to think of Hephzy and, as I said, of myself, and to review my life since Ardelia Cahoon and Strickland Morley changed its course so completely.
"Then you will go back to England, will you not?" "I don't know. We have made no plans as yet." "But you will go back. Miss Cahoon said you would. And, when your lease of the rectory expires, you will sail for America." "I don't know." "But you must know," with a momentary impatience. "Surely you don't intend to remain here in Paris." "I don't know that, either.
I am rather upset, I'm afraid. I didn't expect that is, I expected.... Well, I didn't expect THIS! What was it you asked me?" "I asked you who you were." "My name is Knowles Kent Knowles. I am Captain Cahoon's grand-nephew." "His grand-nephew. Then Did Captain Cahoon send you to me?" "Send me! I beg your pardon once more. No.... No. Captain Cahoon is dead. He has been dead nearly ten years.
This had been scratched out and "28 Camford Street, London, England," added. I looked at the envelope. Who in the world, or in England, could have written Captain Barnabas Captain Barnabas Cahoon, my great-uncle, dead so many years? At first I was inclined to hand the letter, unopened, to Hephzy. She was Captain Barnabas's daughter and it belonged to her by right.
Cahoon refrained from saying that inexplicable midnight expeditions were not the kind of things they cared for in Belfast. Even he recognized that a man who had accumulated as large a fortune as Conroy's must not be judged by ordinary standards. I, unfortunately, failed to go to sleep. I tried to read the works of Alexander Pope, of which I found a well-bound copy in my bedroom.
Undoubtedly McConkey and Crossan are close relations, brothers-in-law perhaps. We reached the Green Loaney Scutching Mill at about half-past five o'clock. Cahoon, who seemed to know all about the establishment, led me through some very dusty purlieus. McConkey, when we came upon him, did not seem particularly pleased to see Cahoon. He looked at me with suspicious malignity.
"Just what I told my wife all through," he said. "I knew you'd hang out!" Eli's jury was excused for the rest of the day, and by noon he was in his own village, relieved, too, of his most pressing burden: for George Cahoon had met him on the road, and told him that he was not going to the West, after all, for the present, and should not need his money.
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