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Updated: June 24, 2025
After breakfast Captain Zelotes had gone, as usual, directly to the office. His grandson, however, had not accompanied him. "What are you cal'latin' to do this mornin', Al?" inquired the captain. "Oh, I don't know exactly, Grandfather. I'm going to look about the place a bit, write a letter to my publishers, and take a walk, I think. You will probably see me at the office pretty soon.
Bixbee sat for a moment with her large, light blue, and rather prominent eyes fixed on her brother's face, and then she said, with a slight undertone of anxiety, "Was you cal'latin' to have that young man from New York come here?" "I hadn't no such idee," he replied, with a slight smile, aware of what was passing in her mind. "What put that in your head?"
Captain Zeb, who had been inspecting the anchored vessel through the spyglass, lowered the latter and seemed puzzled. "Not much," he answered. "Blessed if she don't look abandoned to me. Can't see a sign of life aboard her." "We couldn't neither," said Thoph. "We was just cal'latin' to go off to her when Charlie come and told us about the longboat.
Then he got up and took another observation. At last he goes back to the chair, stretches himself out, puts his feet against the stove, pulls at the cigar, and says he: "'I was cal'latin' to go downtown on a bus'ness trip, same's I did last night. But I guess, he says 'I guess I won't. It's too comfort'ble here, says he.
If he had said he was connected with the interior department of a Brontosaurus the statements would have conveyed an equal amount of understanding to the Pulcifer mind. However, it was a fixed principle with Raish never to admit a lack of knowledge of any subject whatsoever. So he said: "From Washin'ton, eh? I see. Yes, yes. Cal'latin' to stay here on the Cape long, Mr. Bangs?"
He was planning a new rose garden "the finest from Buzzard's Bay down"; he had torn out the "whole broadside" of the music-room and was "cal'latin'" to make it twice as large as formerly; he was to build a large conservatory on the knoll by the stables. Hannah Parker declared she could not see the need of this.
'I was cal'latin' to go home and cook somethin' for dinner. "'Well, there, now! says Abbie. 'I wonder why I didn't think of it afore! Why don't you come right in and have dinner with me? It's ALL ready and there's plenty for two. DO come, Mr. Parker, to please ME! "'Course Kenelm said he couldn't, and, likewise, of course, he did.
"I knew I must have left it somewheres 'cause 'cause, you see I I took it out with me last night and and " "And come home without it. It wouldn't take a King Solomon to know that. Did you find it?" Kenelm's embarrassment appeared to increase. "Well," he stammered, "I ain't exactly found it but " "But what?" "I I'm cal'latin' to find it, Hannah." "Yes, I know.
"I'd about made up my mind to sound the fog horn by askin' him straight out what he was cal'latin' to do; but somethin' I heard one evenin', as I set alone in the hotel office, made me think I'd better wait a spell. "The office window was open and the curtain drawed down tight.
"I was just goin' to ask you if you thought Charlie was cal'latin' to ask her. I ain't so sure that he is." He told of Charles' recent visit to the windmill shop and the young man's query concerning the making of a decision. She listened anxiously. "But don't you think that means that he was wondering whether or not he should ask her?" she said. "No.
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