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Updated: June 27, 2025
That's my offer. You've got a couple of months to think it over in." The catboat swung about on her final tack and stood in for the narrows, the route which the Captain had spoken of as the "short cut." From where Josiah sat the way seemed choked with lines of roaring, frothing breakers that nothing could approach and keep above water.
Once a week Craney would come down the coast in a clumsy catboat, and we'd take a load up to the town, which was called "Corazon," a considerable town forty miles off, where were French and Spanish agencies in the cocoa trade. Every day a cautious, stringy-haired Injun, with a loaded donkey, would come trotting out of the woods to the shed, or maybe several of them at odd times.
Then he saw something in her face which told him so much that he forgot the little catboat, barely out of sight, he forgot the little red-roofed village barely a mile away, he forgot the lone figures of the shrimpers, standing like sentinels far away in the salt pools. He took Jeanne into his arms, and he felt her lips melt upon his.
Andrew came before long, speeding his way out of the village harbour in his little catboat. She watched him cross the sandy bar of the inlet, and run his boat presently upon the beach below where she sat. Then she shook out her skirts and made room for him by her side. "Really, Mr.
In the course of time this occupation defeated its purpose; the very monotony of it sent his thoughts winging back to Quain; he worried more than ever for his friend, reproaching himself unmercifully for that he had suffered him to go alone or at all. Quain had a wife and children; that thought proved insupportable.... Had he missed the catboat altogether?
"If I'D been brought up in a catboat, and had a tan like a red Indian, and hair like a Broadway blonde, I wouldn't worry either. Mrs. Shaw says you look exactly like a British peer in disguise." I had never seen a British peer, with or without his disguise, and I admit I was interested. "Why are the girls in this house," demanded Kinney, "always running to your room to borrow matches?
The boys watched the swiftly approaching boat. It came in through the narrows at top speed, circled around toward the docks, and passed the catboat at a distance. "'S. P. 888'!" yelled Torry. "Look there!" "I thought it was that same chaser we saw before," Frenchy said. "Wonder what she wants in here at Seacove?" Ikey asked.
He was seen to turn and look in the direction of the catboat, as if he expected something from that. He was not disappointed. General Yozarro and his friends were quick to note the mishap that had befallen the tug and they headed their craft toward it.
"You might supply the deficiency," he suggested. "Well," he remarked to Jack, "that settles it. Everything's running like a catboat in a fair wind. He's in communication with us; he is gaining confidence in his inflated imaginary importance; we are to have a continuance of his peculiar activities; and we can put our hands on him at a moment's notice."
"I fancy I see myself in London, paying calls," he declared. "Give me my catboat and fishing line. I'd rather sail down the home creek, with a northeast gale in my teeth, than walk down Piccadilly in patent boots." She sighed. "I am afraid," she admitted, "that as a town acquaintance you are hopeless." "I am afraid so," he answered, looking steadily seawards.
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