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Updated: June 14, 2025
She had put Lawford Tapp aside as inconsequential. It was mid forenoon the following day, and quite a week after Louise Grayling's arrival at Cap'n Abe's store on the Shell Road, that the stage was set for a most surprising climax. The spirit of gloom still hovered over Betty Gallup in the rear premises where she was sweeping and dusting and scrubbing.
Within the past few hours several things that had seemed stable in Louise Grayling's life had been shaken. She had accepted in the very first of her acquaintanceship with Lawford Tapp the supposition that his social position was quite inferior to her own. She was too broadly democratic to hold that as an insurmountable barrier between them.
"Cap'n Am'zon!" exclaimed several excited voices. But only one and that Louise Grayling's uttered another name: "Cap'n Abe! Isn't he with you? Didn't you bring him ashore?" "By heaven! that's so, Louise!" groaned Lawford. "They must both be out there. The two brothers are marooned on that rotten wreck!"
Originally, in Lou Grayling's case, when she first lived with Aunt Euphemia and was a day pupil at an exclusive preparatory school, it had been drilled into her by the lady that "children should be seen but not heard!"
"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.
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