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"Do you suppose," she said, a few moments later, when the cook and steward had shown symptoms of doing something beside lean against the sink and whistle, "do you suppose you could get along for a few minutes while I went up and dressed my dolls?" Isaiah turned to stare at her. "Well," he stammered, "I I cal'late maybe I could if I tried hard. If you don't beat anything ever I see!
I can't get at her starboard side, that's down in the mud, and I cal'late she'd leak like a skimmer. She's only got a fores'l and a jib, and the jib's only a little one that used to belong to a thirty-foot sloop. Her anchor's gone, and I wouldn't trust her main topmast to carry anything bigger'n a handkerchief, nor that in a breeze no more powerful than a canary bird's breath.
Now, when she returned he was eagerly awaiting her and would have haunted the parsonage before and after working hours of every day as well as the evening, if she had permitted, and when with her assumed a proprietary air which was so obvious that even Mr. Price felt called upon to comment on it. "Say, Al," drawled Issachar, "cal'late you've cut out Eddie Raymond along with Helen, ain't ye?
An't it worth tryin', any how? If we could catch him, and get him to Ameriky alive, or only his skeleton, my fortune's made, I cal'late. I kind o' can't think that young fellow's been a gullin' me. He talks as though he'd seen the awful big critters with his own eyes. So do the other six fellows they couldn't all of 'em have been dreamin'."
"Are you trying to tell me that Harry's got the gossiping fever?" "Not only that, but what he's saying is pure lies. I can't see why he wants to do other people's dirty work," complained the unhappy woman. "I cal'late you'd best give me some idea about this here yarn he's spinning, so's I can lay for him with a spike." "It's about Mr. McGowan, and what he's telling ain't true, and I know it!"
"Indeed, you should have told me, and it does concern, far more than you think," she replied, drying her eyes and cheeks. "I know I must look frightful." "You don't look nothing of the sort. You couldn't if you tried to." "Will you be home to-night, Uncle Josiah?" she asked, looking at her wrist-watch. It was half-past ten o'clock. "Cal'late to be." "May I come to see you?"
"Went up to Castalia to see a couple of men who he thought he might get for the crew, but I don't think Burns or any one else knows it. He wanted to make the trip on the quiet an' get them without anybody's knowing it if he could. But what do you cal'late to do, Bige?" "By the Great Snood, I don't know!" declared Tanner helplessly.
"I got knocked out first thing there's the scar of it," and the captain put a finger again on the mark along his jaw which actually was a memento of contact with the cellar step when he was a child. "Belayin' pin. Knocked me inside out for Sunday. But I cal'late they didn't put the steel to me 'cause I'd been fairly decent to 'em comin' down from N'York.
She was purty thick with him once, and heerd from him once or twice after he went off to sea." "She was in love with him?" "That's putting it purty tame. I cal'late Say, has she been speaking to you about him?" asked the seaman eagerly. The minister nodded. "I'm breaking a promise to her by talking with you about it, but " "Breaking a promise you made to Clemmie? How's that?"
"You may keep that, Josiah, as a token of my appreciation for what you have done." "Not this one," said the Captain. "That's honest enough to pass. I mean that one the interest has been paid on all these years." "I'm afraid that my lawyers foreclosed on that at noon " "From what Harold said, I cal'late you'll find the interest was paid afore they had a chance to foreclose.
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