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You KNOW you can't go over to that station jest as well as I do." So Ralph did give it up, although rather against his will. There was nothing of importance to be done, but he felt a little like a deserter, nevertheless. "Perez won't git home neither," observed Captain Eri. "He's snowed in, too." Captain Perez had that afternoon gone down to the Mayo homestead to take tea with Miss Davis.
What he liked about her, he said, was her "good old-fashioned common-sense," and, whereas he had formerly trusted to his own share of this virtue almost altogether, now he was glad to have hers to help out. The marriage idea, that which had brought the housekeeper to Orham, was now seldom mentioned. In fact, Captain Eri had almost entirely ceased to ruffle Jerry's feelings with reference to it.
Delancy Barry's summer estate on the "cliff road." As for Captain Jerry, he was janitor at the schoolhouse. The catch was heavy the next morning, as has been said, and by the time the last fish was split and iced and the last barrel sent to the railway station it was almost supper time. Captain Eri had intended calling on Baxter early in the day, but now he determined to wait until after supper.
But it came back again when Captain Eri said: "Oh, I say, Mr. Hazeltine, I forgot to ask you, did 'Gusty come yesterday?" Ralph answered, rather hurriedly, that she did not. He endeavored to change the subject, but the Captain wouldn't let him. "Well, there!" he exclaimed amazedly; "if 'Gusty ain't broke her record!
He took off his hat and mittens and solemnly declined a proffered chair. "Cap'n Burgess," he said, "I've got somethin' to tell you somethin' awful. The whole life-savin' crew but one is drownded, and Cap'n Eri Hedge " An exclamation from Mrs. Snow interrupted him. The housekeeper clasped her hands together tightly and sank into a chair. She was very white. Elsie ran to her. "What is it, Mrs.
"I know, I know," with the monotonous persistence of those whose minds are wandering, and then cleanly once more, "Eri, I've been called." "Ssh-h! That's all right, John; that's all right. Don't you want Mrs. Snow to fix your piller? P'raps you'd lay a little easier, then. Now, Mrs. Snow, if you'll jest turn it while I lift him. So; that's better now, ain't it, shipmate, hey?"
Ralph, seated in the stern, found himself wondering how on earth his companion managed to row as he did, and steer at the same time. The strokes were short, but there was power in them, and the dory, although moving rather slowly, went doggedly on. "Let me take her," shouted Ralph after a while, "you must be tired." "Who, me?" Captain Eri laughed. "I could keep this up for a week.
"All right, I promise it now. That's all right, Perez. You and me are old shipmates, and bound to help each other out. Just trust him to me, and don't ask too many questions. Is it a trade? Good! Shake." They shook hands on it, and then Captain Eri went in to talk to the unreconciled runaway.
Captain Eri, worried, afraid to think of the fire and its cause, and only anxious to ascertain where his friend was and what he had been doing that night, trotted through the pasture and over the hill. Just as he came to the bayberry bushes on the other side he stumbled and fell flat.
Seems to me I remember smellin' sort of a scorchin' smell when I was lockin' up. Oh, say! I was mighty sorry to hear 'bout Cap'n Baxter bein' took sick. The old man was dreadful down on liquor, but I laid that to his religion and never had no hard feelin's against him. How's he gittin' along?" Captain Eri brusquely replied that his friend was "'bout the same," and asked if Mr.
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