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I don't know, I'm sure. You might lock HER up, I suppose, just for a change." "Hey!" There was a sound from behind the pane as if the imprisoned one had slapped his knee. "By gum! I never thought of that. Would you now, Mr. Ellery? Would you? Sshh! sshh! somebody's comin'. Maybe it's her. Run around to the door, Mr. Ellery, quick. And don't tell her I've seen you, for mercy sakes!
"I wouldn't ask her to act, if you'll allow me to say so," said Captain John, in his quiet way. "That sort of thing might unsettle her and make her discontented. She steers that little craft over there and is happy now; let her shape her own course, and remember it isn't well to talk to the man at the wheel." Miss Perry stared; Miss Ray, the sharp girl, nodded, and Miss Ellery said petulantly,
"Sakes alive!" she exclaimed, as she met him at the back door. "Where in the world have you been, Mr. Ellery? Soakin' wet again, too!" Ellery replied that he had been for a walk out to the bar. He sat down on the step to remove the borrowed boots. A small rivulet of salt water poured from each as he pulled them off. "For a walk! A swim, you mean.
Your letter of the 6th of January is received at the moment that I am leaving this city on a tour to Philadelphia for two or three weeks. I can, therefore, only acknowledge it. The map was a most acceptable present. I value it greatly as the work of Madame Ellery; a circumstance which my vanity has not allowed me to conceal. You may rely on my zeal and my good will.
Around it rolled the woodland in billows of intense green with sandy beaches in the troughs and straight cliffs at the crests. The green islands were vivid in color. So was the sky above, like the flash in a sapphire. A half-dozen sails fluttered gull-like, and as many launches darted along, suggesting living water creatures. "By Jove!" Ellery exclaimed, moving uneasily.
Seventeen years later Nat Ellery walked down the hill into Gantick village, and entered the King of the Bells. "I've come," said he, "to inquire about a chest I left here, one time back along." And he told his name and the date. The landlord, Joshua Martin son of old Joshua, who had kept the inn in 1806 rubbed his double chin. "So you be Nat Ellery? I can just mind'ee as a lad.
I don't know WHAT to do." The minister declined to wait for breakfast. He said he was not hungry. Leaving Ebenezer to put on the coffeepot and take up his duties as day nurse, Ellery walked off along the beach. The "dead line" prevented his going very far, but he sat down in the lee of a high dune and thought until his head ached. What should he do? What was best for him to do?
She could not bear to trouble him now; she never loved him so dearly, was never so anxious to humor his every wish as on this, perhaps the last evening they would spend together. For, though she would not yet admit it, even to herself, her decision was made, had really been made the first time John Ellery asked her weeks before.
Wallie took the envelope, wondering grimly as he turned it over if there was anything left that could surprise him. There was. On the back was written: Ellery Hicks INSULTED August 3rd, this year of our Lord, 1920. Below, in pencil, was a list of the party with every name crossed out save Mr.
She went on to tell all she knew of her parson's love story. Dr. Parker listened. "Hum!" he said thoughtfully, "I see. What made her change her mind so suddenly? You say, or you gather from what Mr. Ellery told you, that she had all but agreed to marry him. She cares for him, that's sure. Then, all at once, she throws him over and accepts Nat.
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