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Miss Pipkin made this observation while the three of them sat at breakfast Sunday morning. The minister absent-mindedly asked concerning the condition of Miss Splinter. "She 'peared to be a trifle easier this morning. But what's ailing the both of you? Look as if you'd been setting up all night like two owls." "Cal'late we're on our uppers, Clemmie.
He leaned forward and whispered hoarsely: "Mack, it ain't likely she's in love with well, with any other feller, is it?" "She didn't " "With me, for example," broke in the seaman. "You don't think maybe that was the reason she made you give that promise, do you?" The Captain made no effort to hide his eagerness. "I don't mind telling you that I love Clemmie.
"Josiah!" she exclaimed, coloring. "He'll soon forget all I said to him." "You sartin give it to 'em good last night, Mack. It was the best I ever heard. Got most of 'em where they lived, and you took 'em out into the deep beyond their wading-line, too. How about you, Clemmie?" Miss Pipkin had important business in the kitchen.
I loved her long afore Adoniah come along and sp'iled it. He was smarter than me, and went to school. He was real bright and handsome. It wa'n't that Clemmie loved him, but she didn't know the difference. And I know right well he didn't love her. He had took a spite against me because I was left the home place, and he took it out on me by stealing my girl.
You're clean off in your head, going out a night like this! It's raining pitchforks, and is past ten o'clock." "Don't you worry, Clemmie. I ain't crazy. I've just got back what little sense I was born with. I'm sailing my Jennie P. to the city. Good-bye." Before she could enter any protest, he stooped and kissed her.
"Have you the slightest idea where your brother is?" "No. I ain't heerd from him for more than twenty years, and then it wa'n't direct. He left because he was 'feared Clemmie was going to make him marry her, and he knew if he took to sailing the seas she'd never foller him. Damn him! He didn't treat her square. That's why I don't have much use for him.
I've been waiting for this too many years to be cheated out by a young rascal like you." He seized the not unwilling Miss Pipkin, and pushed the minister in the direction of the kitchen. "Clemmie, ain't this grand?" asked the old man. "It's really been you all these years, Josiah." "Been me? You mean you've loved me all the time, Clemmie?" "Um-hm," she nodded vigorously.
But I'd certainly like the cruise and the air." "I cal'late I ain't changed no subject. We'll go over Riverhead way. It'll be sort of a vacation from all this mess, and give me a chance to see about this puzzling woman question." With this declaration, the Captain retreated into a silence which all of Mr. McGowan's questions failed to penetrate. The old man was thinking of Clemmie Pipkin!
She extended a bony hand. "I'm real glad to see you, Josiah. It's been a long time since you called." "Howdy, Clemmie. It has been a mite long, but I've been purty busy of late trying to keep people out of trouble." "Then you must have changed a lot." "You ain't looking well," he observed solicitously. "Ain't sick, be you?" "No," she answered with a deep sigh. "That is, I ain't real sick.
"Now, don't get mad, Clemmie. I ain't proposing to you," he explained as calmly as possible. "But as I've said afore " "I know what you've said, learnt it like a book. And you know what I've said, too. My no means NO." "I cal'late you ain't left no room for me to doubt that. You've made that purty tolerable plain. I reckon we're getting too old for that now, anyway.
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