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When that Marietta Hoag or that Chinee critter or Cap'n Jeth's ghost's wife or whoever 'twas talkin' that spirit jabber when she them, I mean give out that a small, dark man was right there in that house, I thought " "Primmie, go to bed." "Yes'm. And when I remembered that Nelse Howard was " "Go to bed this minute!" "Yes'm. But how do you 'spose he's goin' to "
Martha smiled. "It blew the roof off the barn here," she said, "and blew down both chimneys on the house and both over at Cap'n Jeth's. So far as that goes we had plenty of company, for there were nineteen chimneys down along the main road in Wellmouth. And trees mercy! how the poor trees suffered! East Wellmouth lost thirty-two big silver-leafs and the only two elms it had.
DID you have 'em then?" "Why ah yes, I did." "And you never said nothin', but just let me talk! And and how about this seance thing? You was the one put me up to making Marietta pretend to get messages from Jeth's wife tellin' him to sell his stock to me. YOU done it. I'd never thought of it if you hadn't put the notion in my head. And and all the time Oh, by CRIPES!"
Zach hastened to get them, but before he reached the dining room they heard the outer door open and Jeth's voice demanding to know why Lulie had kept him waiting so long. Nelson, with a somewhat rueful smile and a wave of the hand to Martha and Galusha, dodged into the blackness of the front hall. Miss Phipps closed the door after him. The conspirators looked at each other.
I've tried to be careful, but you can't always tell. If you want advice, he said, 'go to Jethro Hallett. Jeth's a shrewd business man. Ah, well, he didn't know that the spirits were goin' to run Cap'n Jeth. About the last words he said to me, father, I mean, was, 'Martha, hang on to the old place if you can. I hate to think of your sellin' it. Of course I told him I never should sell it."
"No, no, no," he growled, "'tain't any such thing. Your boardin' there's a good thing for Martha. She needs the money." Galusha was troubled. "I'm sorry to hear that," he said. "She is not ah not pinched for means, I hope. Not that that is my business, of course," he added, hastily. Captain Jeth's reply was gruff and rather testy.
A few minutes later she proclaimed that Cap'n Jeth had just climbed aboard and that the autos were coming back. "See! See, Mr. Bangs!" she cried, pointing. "There's Cap'n Jeth, settin' between Marietta and 'Phelia Beebe. There's the three of 'em on the back seat. Cap'n Jeth's the one with the whiskers." At six o'clock Martha and her lodger walked over to the Hallett house.
Oh, pshaw! Wouldn't it make you tired? Say, Mr. Bangs, the last time you and I talked you said you were going to 'consider' those Marietta Hoag spirits. I don't know what you meant, but if you could consider some sense into them and into Cap'n Jeth's stubborn old head, I wish you would." Galusha smiled and said he would try.
"Well!" he began; tried again, but only succeeded in repeating the word. Then he blurted out his next question. "Who'd you buy them shares for?" "Eh? For?" "Yes, for. Who did you buy Cap'n Jeth's and Martha's stock for? Who got you to buy it? 'Twasn't the Trust Company crowd, was it?" "The Trust Company? I beg pardon? Oh, I see I see. Dear me, no.
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