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Updated: May 23, 2025
"It 'ud be jest like the old pirate!" croaked a harsh voice from the kitchen doorway, and Betty Gallup appeared, apparently ready to back up Mrs. Conroth physically, as well as otherwise. That hour in the old-fashioned living-room behind Cap'n Abe's store was destined to be marked indelibly upon Louise Grayling's memory. Aunt Euphemia and Betty Gallup had both come armed for the fray.
Conroth was forced to put a cap upon her vexation, and bid her niece good-day as sweetly as though she had never dreamed of boxing her ears. Louise climbed the nearest stairs to the summit of the bluff. She felt she could not meet Lawford at this time, and he was between her and the moving picture actors.
The albatross tumbled right down on the deck, a great cut in its throat. It bled like a dog shark, cluttering up the deck." "Horrid!" murmured Mrs. Conroth with a shudder of disgust. "Yes the poor critter!" agreed Cap'n Amazon. "I never like to see innocent, dumb brutes killed.
Yet he walked on to join the nearest group of anxious watchers, the spray beating into that face which was strangely marred. It was the tag-end of the season for the summer colony at The Beaches. Mrs. Conroth expected to leave the Perritons that evening was leaving lingeringly, for she had desired to bear her niece off to New York with her. But on that point Louise had been firm.
"I wish to see my niece at once," Mrs. Conroth said, flushing a little at his suggestion of her advancing years. "Come right in," he said, lifting the flap in the counter. Mrs. Conroth glared around the store through her glass. "Cannot Louise come here?" She asked helplessly. "We live back o' the shop and overhead," explained Cap'n Amazon. "Come right in, I'll have Betty Gallup call Louise."
"Who is she, then?" gasped Marian. "Sue Perriton says she is Mrs. Conroth's niece, and Mrs. Conroth is all the Society with a capital letter there is. Now, figure it out," said Cecile tartly. "If you smarties had taken her up right at the start " "But we didn't kno-o-ow!" wailed Marian. "Go on!" commanded Prue grimly. "Why, Miss Grayling's father is a big scientist, or something, at Washington.
They literally swept Louise off her feet by their vehemence. The effect of the challenge on Cap'n Amazon was most puzzling. As Mrs. Conroth refused to sit down she could talk better standing, becoming quite oracular, in fact the captain could not, in politeness, take his customary chair. And he had discarded his pipe upon going to the door to let the visitor in.
They insisted upon my coming there at once, and I have promised to bring you with me." "You have promised more than you can perform. Aunt Euphemia," Louise replied shortly. "I will remain here." "Louise!" "I will remain here with Cap'n Amazon. And with Uncle Abram when he returns. They are both dear old men " "That awful looking pirate!" gasped Mrs. Conroth.
"You are incorrigible, Louise," cried Aunt Euphemia, her fingers in her ears. "I will not listen to you. It is sacrilegious." "It's not a far cry," her niece pursued, "from molasses to taffy. And it seems to me one is quite as aristocratic as the other." So she left Mrs. Conroth in a horrified state of mind and stepped out to face the gale.
"I'll have to look into this further." "Isn't it terrible?" interrupted Mrs. Conroth. "They say the two brothers are out on that wreck and they cannot be reached until the gale subsides. And then it will be too late to save them. Well, Louise, that old sailor was certainly a brave man. I am really sorry I spoke so harshly about him. They tell me it was he who put your father in the boat.
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