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You get that idea out of your head along with the notion that Jim Fox is going to help you, and you'll get a ship. The very best there is afloat, too." "It's mighty kind of you to say that, Clemmie. I cal'late the notion about Jim is purty well shook out. That's one thing I wanted to talk to you about. You know the old place here had been sort of run down for a good many year.
"Is Nellie here?" he asked without the formality of the usual greetings. "I cal'late she is, Nat," replied Tanner, rising to his feet. "Wait a minute an' I'll call her." But he had not reached the door before the girl herself stepped out on the porch. She ran out eagerly, but stopped short when she saw Code in the darkness. Their meeting was obviously reserved.
"Uncle Josiah, why will you and Father never understand each other? Father is so kind and good, and so are you, and yet you are never able to agree. Why is it?" she implored. "Too much alike, I cal'late. But honest, Beth, I ain't got nothing particular against your father, and if I had I'd sink my feelings to Davy's locker for your sake.
One afternoon she did not return at her usual hour. Captain Cy was waiting at the gate when Asaph Tidditt happened along. Bailey, too, was with him. "Waitin' for Bos'n, was you?" asked the town clerk. "Well, you'll have to wait quite a spell, I cal'late. She's been kept after school." "Yes; and she's got to write fifty lines of copy," added Bailey. Captain Cy was highly indignant.
"I didn't cal'late 'twas so very high, considerin' that 'twas just for 'summer and furnished and all. The Davidsons paid forty dollars a month, but " "FORTY dollars! A month? And furnished like that? You mean a week, don't you?" Mr. Winslow looked at her. The slow smile wandered across his face. He evidently suspected a joke. "Why, no, ma'am," he drawled.
"Of course somebody asked you to drop in here so very accidentally: come now, who was it?" "I'm God Almighty's witness dropped from the clouds, I cal'late." "Come, sir, no prevarication. How came you here just at the nick of time?" "Counsellor, when I'm treated polite, I'm ile; but rile me, and I'm thunder stuffed with pison: don't you raise my dander, and I'll tell you.
Her face was long and thin, and now age and worry had dug deeply into the homely features, obliterating the last trace of middle life. She always dressed in black, and to-day the Captain saw that her clothes were worn and faded. He moved uneasily as his quick eye took in the meaning of these signs. "I cal'late they're working you too hard here, Clemmie," he said tenderly.
He tossed the valise to the floor, grinned, and extended a hand. "Well, Cap'n Dan," he observed, "you look as natural as life. I must have changed, I cal'late. Don't you know me?" The captain's eyes were opening wider and wider. "Labe!" he exclaimed; "Laban Ginn! Where in the world did you come from?"
I think he is a very intelligent young man. Only he wastes his time so!" "He knows enough book l'arnin', I do allow," agreed Cap'n Amazon. "But fritters away his time as you say. They all do that over to Tapp P'int, I cal'late." "I wonder how it came to be called Tapp Point?" Louise asked, with a suddenly sharpened curiosity.
Well, by and by Lonesome Huckleberries' shanty hove in sight, and I was glad to see it, although I had to answer a million questions about Lonesome and his history. I told the Todds that, so fur as nationality was concerned he was a little of everything, like a picked-up dinner; principally Eyetalian and Portugee, I cal'late, with a streak of Gay Head Injun.
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