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And Captain Eri hurried off to find it. When bedtime came there was some argument as to where the guest should sleep. Ralph insisted that the haircloth sofa in the parlor was just the thing, but Captain Eri wouldn't hear of it. "Haircloth's all right to look at," he said, "but it's the slipperiest stuff that ever was, I cal'late.
Neither of them attached much importance to the letter which she had received, although Captain Perez did ask Mrs. Snow if she knew from whom it came. The lady from Nantucket was not so easily satisfied. At her first opportunity she cornered Captain Eri, and they discussed the whole affair from beginning to end.
The Captain was gallantly assisting his companion over the rough places in the path, and she was leaning upon his arm in a manner that implied implicit confidence. Captain Eri glanced from one couple to the other, and then grinned broadly. The grin had not entirely disappeared when Captain Perez came up, and the latter rather crisply asked what the joke was. "Oh, nothin'!" was the reply.
He wasn't entirely free from this persecution, however, for Eri more than once asked him, in tones the sarcasm of which was elaborately veiled, if his match-making scheme had gotten tired and was sitting down to rest. To which the sacrifice would reply stoutly, "Oh, it's comin' out all right; you wait and see." But in his heart Captain Jerry knew better.
"I do know him," answered Kai, "he is Dillus Varvawc, and no leash in the world will be able to hold Drudwyn, the cub of Greid the son of Eri, save a leash made from the beard of him thou seest yonder. And that even will be useless, unless his beard be plucked alive with wooden tweezers; for if dead, it will be brittle." "What thinkest thou that we should do concerning this?" said Bedwyr.
Then, as a result of THAT, I well, I came here." The young lady blushed furiously. "What did Captain Eri tell you?" she demanded. "Just what Captain Jerry told him." "And that was?" "What you told Captain Jerry this morning concerning something that you told him before, I believe." There was no answer to this.
The Captain's voice shook as he answered: "Marthy Snow," he said, "you're the kind of woman that I'd like to have had for a sister." It was perhaps a half-hour later when Captain Eri started for the schoolhouse to bring Elsie home. John Baxter had not wakened, and Mrs. Snow said she was not afraid to remain alone with him. The thaw had turned to a light rain and the Captain carried an umbrella.
"Tell me," said Miss Preston, who had eaten but little, but was apparently getting more satisfaction from watching her companions, "did you three men try to keep house here alone?" "Yes," answered Eri dryly. "We tried.
It ain't necessary for me to say that er a teacher from Radcliffe don't come our way very often, and that we that is, the town of Orham, would er feel itself lucky if you'd be willing to come." "Of course, I told him, Elsie," said Captain Eri, "that you wouldn't think of comin' for forty-five dollars a month or anything like that. Of course, 'tisn't as though you really needed the place."
"Well, the fust mate was Obed Simmons he's dead now but he used to live over on the road towards East Harniss. The skipper well, he was a feller you know." "'Twas Cap'n Eri," said Mrs. Snow with conviction. "That's right, ma'am. Perez told you, I s'pose." "No, nobody told me. I jest guessed it.
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