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"Over in East Wellmouth. It's the old Abner Barnes place. Cap'n Abner willed it to me. He was my uncle." And at last Mr. Cobb showed marked interest. Slowly he leaned back in his chair. His spectacles fell from his nose into his lap and lay there unheeded. "What? What's that you say?" he asked, sharply. "Abner Barnes was your uncle? I I thought you said your name was Cahoon."
"Oh, no, no. We are not related. Merely friends." "I see. I thought there wan't any Bangses in that family. His wife was a Cahoon, wan't she?" "I I BEG your pardon?" "I asked you if she wan't a Cahoon; Cahoon was her name afore she married Hall, wan't it?" "Oh, I don't know, I'm sure.... Now, really, that's very funny, very." "What's funny?" "Why, you see, I " Mr.
Jedediah Cahoon had evidently had a hard time since the day when, after declaring his intention never to return until "loaded down with money," he had closed the door of his sister's house at South Middleboro and gone out into the snowstorm and the world. His letter contained few particulars.
I wonder if he's been frozen to death or eat up by polar bears, or what. One thing's sartin, he ain't made his fortune or he'd have come home to tell me of it. Last words he said to me was, 'I'm a-goin', no matter what you say. And when I come back, loaded down with money, you'll be glad to see me." Jedediah Cahoon was Mrs. Barnes' only near relative, a brother.
The Government, after driving off the British Fleet, was likely to be in a good temper, but I did not wish to keep it waiting for me too long. When I entered the room I found Conroy, McNeice, Malcolmson, Cahoon and the Dean seated at the table. Moyne was not there. "I congratulate you, gentlemen," I said, "on the result of the naval engagement. Malcolmson was perfectly magnificent.
I returned to the hotel, where Hephzy left me. She was going to do a little shopping by herself. I went to my room and sat down to rest. A bell boy at least that is what we should have called him in the States knocked at the door. "A lady to see Monsieur," he said. The lady was Frances. She entered the room and I rose to greet her. "Why, you are alone!" she exclaimed. "Where is Miss Cahoon?"
At the end of another quarter of an hour of furious driving he gave me a little further information about McConkey. "He neither drinks nor smokes." This led me to think that he might be some relation to my friend Crossan, possibly a cousin. "I happen to know," said Cahoon a little later, "that he has upwards of £500 saved."
Cole and Hephzy were making a tour of the house. They met us at the door. Mrs. Cole's eyes were twinkling; I judged that she had found Hephzy amusing. If this was true it had not warped her judgment, however, for, a moment later when she and I were alone, she said: "Your cousin, Miss Cahoon, is a good housekeeper, I imagine." "She is all of that," I said, decidedly.
Phineas was already seated at the table, glancing over his shoulder at the butler, whose look of dignified disgust at being obliged to wait upon a countryman in his shirt sleeves would have been funny, if I had been in a mood for fun. I don't know which was the more uncomfortable, Cahoon or the butler. "Won't you join us, Miss Colton?" I asked. "Why why, yes, perhaps I will, if you don't mind.
I had been under the impression that you and Miss Cahoon were strangers here." So had I, but I did not explain that, either. Mrs. Jameson joined us. "She will sleep now, I think," she said. "She is quite quiet and peaceful. A near relative of yours, Mr. Knowles?" "She is Mr. Knowles's niece," explained her husband. "Oh, yes. A sweet girl she seems. And very pretty, isn't she." I did not answer.
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