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I'm booked for South Denboro, and that's only seven miles off. I'd swim the whole seven rather than put up at Sim Titcomb's hotel. I've been there afore, thank you! Look here, Caleb, can't I hire a team and drive over?" "Well, I don't know. S'pose you might ring up Pete Shattuck and ask him. He's pretty particular about his horses, though, and I cal'late he " "All right. I'll ring him up.
It ain't because I'm popular here in Denboro that I'm what I am. Now is it?" The truthful answer would have been no. Captain Dean was not popular, but he was respected even by the many who disliked and disagreed with him. I hesitated, trying to think what to say. "You know 'tain't that," he said.
"What was that?" she demanded, in a startled tone. "The fog horn at Mackerel Island, the island at the mouth of Wellmouth harbor," I answered. "And that bell?" "That is the fog bell at Crow Point." "At Crow Point? Why, it can't be! Crow Point is in Denboro Bay, and that bell is a long way behind us." "Yes. We are a mile or more outside the Point now. The tide has carried us out."
"I don't know." "I know you wouldn't. What's the use of giving the Denboro gossip mill a chance to run over time? Great heavens! it works twelve hours a day as 'tis." "It was mighty good of you, just the same." "No, it wasn't. The whole affair was your business and nobody else's." "Well, as I said before, if ever I have an opportunity to do as much for you not that I ever will."
Who is it, then?" I hesitated. Before noon of the next day every soul in Denboro would have heard the news. Eldredge might as well hear it now. "I've taken the place myself," I said. "You?" Sim actually forgot to whisper; he shouted the word. "YOU! Ha! ha! ha! Ros, quit your foolin'." "I'm not fooling. I go to work in the bank to-morrow morning." "But Oh, my soul! You! Aw, I know better!
I presume " with crushing irony "dress in South Denboro counts but little." "You wouldn't say that if you ever went to sewin' circle," with a chuckle. "Still, compared to the folks at your meetin'-house this morning, our congregation would look like a flock of blackbirds alongside of a cage full of Birds of Paradise. But most of us the women folks especial dress as well as we can."
But now it was I who questioned. "Do you like Denboro?" I asked. "I am beginning to like it very much. At first I thought it very dull, but now I am getting acquainted." "There are few cottagers and summer people here. But in Harniss there is a large colony. Very nice people, I believe." "Yes, I have met some of them. But it was not the summer people I meant.
"Nothin', only some of the fellers wondered if you was. You see, you won't sell, and so " "I see. That's a brilliant suggestion, Lute. When I adopt it I'll appoint you toll-keeper." "By time! I wish you would. I'd make Thoph Newcomb pay up. He owes me ten cents; bet it one time and never settled." Yes, my position in Denboro had changed.
I shall leave Denboro as soon as I can. She will never know." "Humph! I see . . . I see . . . Well, I don't know that there is anything for me to say." "There is not." "I am sorry for you, of course." "Thank you." There was a sharp rap at the door. Doctor Quimby opened it and entered the room. He glanced from me to his patient and his face expressed sharp disapproval.
But he remembered how odd certain city people appeared while summering at South Denboro. Recollections of pointed comments made by boatmen who had taken these summer sojourners on fishing excursions came to his mind. Well, he had one advantage over such people, at any rate, he knew when he was ridiculous, and they apparently did not.
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