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Skinner, president and general manager of the Ricks Logging & Lumbering Company, the corporate entity which represented Cappy's vast lumber interests; and he fairly barked the information at Captain Matt Peasley, his son-in-law and also president and manager of the Blue Star Navigation Company, another corporate entity which represented the Ricks interest in the American mercantile marine. Mr.
"I've been with him twenty-six yes, twenty-seven years; and I know him, Matt. He's cooking up something prodigious and it will soon be done." The door of Cappy's office opened and Cappy stood in the entrance. "Skinner," he ordered, "get me a letter of credit for about twenty thousand dollars. I'm going travelling." "Where?" Matt and Skinner queried in chorus. "To Europe." "You're not!"
Cappy Ricks burst into a shrill senile cackle that was really good to hear. As they grow old most men lose that capacity for a hearty laugh, but Cappy's perversity had kept him young at heart. The tears of mirth cascaded down his seamed old countenance now, and he had to sit down and have his laugh out. "Oh, thunder!" he panted.
The tugboat company will libel the ship now, and sue us for fifty thousand dollars' salvage on vessel and cargo," and Cappy groaned, for he owned both. "By George!" he continued. "I didn't think Matt would do anything like that to me. No, sir! If anybody had told me that boy could be such an ingrate I'd have told him " A youth entered Cappy's office uninvited.
As if to give the lie to Cappy's criticisms, the British consul was admitted at that moment. "Gentlemen," he announced as the heart-broken trio gathered round him, "I have some very grave news for you."
"I'll take you to luncheon up at the Commercial Club if you'll tell me." Matt bent low and whispered in Cappy's ear: "I'm going to marry your daughter. I'll have to furnish a home and " "No excuse!" said Cappy fiercely. "Son, all you've got to buy is the wedding ring and the license, and some clothes. I'm stuck for the wedding expenses and you don't have to furnish a home.
However, the climax of Cappy's indignation over the disaster to the Valkyrie was not attained until a few months later when, in conversation on the floor of the Merchants' Exchange with the skipper of the schooner Tarus, who happened to have been in Papeete at the bombardment, he learned he had done the German admiral a grave injustice.
"You know it," Matt answered heartily, and stepped back into Cappy's office. "Well," said Cappy, "that was mighty well done, Matt. Thank you. So you think you'll quit the Sea Fox and be my port captain, eh?" "I think so, sir." "Well, I do not, Matt.
To part with Skinner was like parting with a dividend-producing gold mine; it was equivalent to unloading on Cappy's shoulders again the burden of work and worry that would have killed him ten years ago had he not surrendered it to Skinner, who handled it as a juggler handles nine balls.
Cappy Ricks was having his mid-afternoon siesta in his office when Captain Matt Peasley appeared at the counter of the general office and, without awaiting an invitation to enter, swung through the office gate and made straight for Cappy's office. En route he had to pass through Mr. Skinner's lair, and the general manager looked up as Matt entered.
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