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"Your aunt Miss Cahoon here had money in her own right." "SHE had money and my mother had not. Yet both were Captain Cahoon's daughters. How did that happen?" It seemed to me that it was Hephzy's time to play the target. I turned to her. "Miss Cahoon will probably answer that herself," I observed, maliciously. Hephzibah appeared more embarrassed than I.
Anyhow she looked worried and Olindy Cahoon's dressmakin' gabble is enough to worry anybody. She left a note for you." "Who? Olinda?" "Land sakes! no! What would Olindy be doin' down here? There ain't any brides to dress in this house, or bridegrooms either unless you're cal'latin' to be one, or Lute turns Mormon. That last notion ain't such a bad one," with a dry smile.
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.
The house belongs to Captain Abner Cahoon's heirs, I believe, and " Again Thankful interrupted. "I knew it!" she cried, excitedly. "I wondered if it mightn't be so and when I see that picture of Uncle Abner I was sure. All right, Mr. Whoever-you-are, then I'm here because I own the house. My name's Barnes, Thankful Barnes of South Middleboro, and I'm Abner Cahoon's heir.
And yet what excuse could I give, after all my protestations? "I I feel that I have the right, everything considered," I stammered. "She is not my niece, but she is Miss Cahoon's." "And she ran away from both of you, asking, as a last request, that you both make no attempt to learn where she was. The whole affair is beyond understanding. What the truth may be "
"I was just wonderin'," drawled Cahoon's voice from the adjoining room, "if I couldn't eat a little mite of this supper. I've got to do it or have my nose and eyes tied up. Havin' all them good things settin' right where I can see and smell 'em is givin' me the fidgets." "Yes, yes, eat away," I said, laughing. And even Miss Colton smiled. But my laugh and her smile were but transient.
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