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"You are sure it won't inconvenience you?" "Bless you, no! I cal'late it's more likely to inconvenience you," and Cap'n Abe chuckled mellowly. "I don't know what sort o' 'roughin' it' you've done with your pa; but if there's anything much rougher than an ol' man's housekeepin' down here on the Cape, it must be pretty average rough!" She laughed gayly. "You can't scare me!"
"Is Cap'n Bill a mermaid now?" asked Trot. "Why, he's a merMAN, I suppose," laughed the pretty princess. "But when he gets home, he will be just Cap'n Bill again." "Wooden leg an' all?" inquired the child. "To be sure, my dear." The sailor was now trying his newly discovered power of swimming, and became astonished at the feats he could accomplish.
We cut up some of the meat an' eat it raw, an' the cap'n sent some over to the other wreck, which had drifted past us to leeward, an' would have gone clean away from us if the cap'n hadn't had a line got out an' made us fast to it while we was a-workin' at the stores.
"Well," said the elder finally, clearing his throat, "I've come up here on an errand you can possibly guess, Cap'n Ira and Sister Ball." "Maybe we can and maybe we can't," observed the captain with a countenance quite as wooden as the elder himself displayed. "I come on behalf of that young woman who was here to see you the other day."
"Don't know, I'm sure," answered Dyer; "but it's a fact that some of 'em be gettin' under way." As the pair emerged from the poop cabin, they were met by Drew, the boatswain, who reported: "There be four of 'em on the move now, Cap'n; and I baint at all sure but where there's one or two more of 'em makin' ready for a start, though the light be that bad "
Beaming, he went on, "I'd pull the rough stuff right here, instead of wastin' my time as a cap'n of industry by taking you up to see the scenery in that daisy little gully off the road; but the whole world can see us along here the hicks in the valley and anybody that happens to sneak along in a car behind us. Shame the way this road curves see too far along it.
We learned to know you pretty well while you stayed with us, Prue and me did. Somehow, we can't just seem to get the straight of what you told us that night you left. It it ain't possible that you made some mistake, is it? Mebbe you was talking about some other gal?" "Oh, Cap'n Ball!" she sighed. "I am able to tell you nothing that will change your opinion of me." "Well, I don't know.
Nobody wouldn't a-blamed you much ef you'd a-fetched the Cap'n a clip stidder the letter; leastways, I wouldn't." The girl shivered and caught her breath. "If I had hit him," she exclaimed vehemently, "I should have gone off and killed myself." "Shoo!" said Teague in a tone intended to be at once contemptuous and reassuring, but it was neither the one nor the other.
When he had finished, Tyke observed coolly: "I'd 've bet dollars to doughnuts that that was the way she headed. Now we know. Eh, Cap'n Rufe?" "Yes," grunted the captain. "What shall we do?" asked Drew. "Do? Keep on," Captain Hamilton said firmly. "What d' you say, Tyke?" "Yes," agreed Grimshaw. "Ditty is playing a waiting game. So will we. An' we have the advantage."
"Get out of the way, please," he called in a fretful voice. "Can't you see you are obstructing my view?" "Good morning," said Cap'n Bill, politely. "It isn't a good morning!" snapped the little man. "I've seen plenty of mornings better than this. Do you call it a good morning when I'm pestered with such a crowd as you?"
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