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"The light went out, but it ain't likely the lantern went with it. Now you go to sleep." Miss Howes obeyed. She was asleep very soon thereafter. But Thankful lay awake, thinking and wondering yes, and dreading. What sort of a place was this she had inherited?
"Lawyers ain't in the habit of GIVIN' much, 'cordin' to all accounts. How about it, Heman?" Mr. Daniels ignored the question and the questioner. He rose to his feet. "There are SOME lawyers," he observed, crisply, "whose advice is not asked to any great extent. I I think I will join the group on the beach. It's a beautiful evening. Won't you accompany me, Miss Howes?"
"I went to get some eggs." "Eggs! What for?" "For my breakfast to-morrow. You said you couldn't spare any, so I've bought some." "Where?" The word expressed mingled wrath and wonder. "Next door." The woman looked puzzled. She thought a moment. "Where'd you say?" she asked after a pause. "Next door at the Howes'." "The Howes'!" Ellen fairly hissed the name. "You went to the Howes' for eggs?"
The money-lender had visited the High Cliff premises but once during the summer and then Miss Howes was providentially absent. "No, no!" declared Mrs. Barnes, hastily. "You shan't do any such thing. The idea! I guess I can 'tend to borrowin' money from my own relation without draggin' other folks into it. I'll drive over and see him pretty soon." "You must go at once.
But 'twan't about that I was thinkin'. Sam, how is Barzilla Small's boy, Lute, gettin' along in Gus Howes' job at the bank?" Captain Sam snorted disgust. "Gettin' along!" he repeated. "He's gettin' along the way a squid swims, and that's backwards. And, if you asked me, I'd say the longer he stayed the further back he'd get." "Sho! then he did turn out to be a leak instead of an able seaman, eh?"
Howes had lent him the basket. "And the newspaper," he explained; adding, with triumph, "I shall dine on codfish to-day, I am happy to say." Judging by appearances he might dine and sup and breakfast on codfish and still have a supply remaining. Albert insisted on carrying the spoil to the parsonage. He was doing nothing in particular and it would be a pleasure, he said. Mr.
Despite the enormous material odds in favor of Great Britain, the natural result of matching the Howes and Gages and Clintons against George Washington ensued, and the first lesson was taught by the evacuation of Boston. Washington did not linger over his victory. Even while the British fleet still hung about the harbor he began to send troops to New York to make ready for the next attack.
Barnes had been encouraging the girl to read literature more substantial than the "Fireside Companion" tales in which she had hitherto delighted, and had, as a beginning, lent her a volume of United States history, one of several discarded schoolbooks which Emily Howes sent at her cousin's request. Imogene was immensely interested in the history.
"Well, I swan to man, Miss Howes!" he cried. "This IS a surprise! I didn't know you was due for a v'yage in this latitude." Thankful laughed. "Neither did I," she declared. "It's as big a surprise to me as it is to you, Cap'n. She didn't write me a word." Emily laughed. "Of course I didn't, Auntie," she said. "I wanted to surprise you. But you're glad to see me, aren't you?"
She kept these ideas to herself, but she spoke to Emily Howes concerning the possibilities of a journey to East Wellmouth. Emily was Mrs. Barnes' favorite cousin, although only a second cousin. Her mother, Sarah Cahoon, Thankful's own cousin, had married a man named Howes. Emily was the only child by this marriage.
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