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Say, you don't suppose Cap'n Jeth will take it seriously and begin to get down on YOU, do you?" Martha looked grave. "I was wonderin' that myself," she said. Galusha smiled. "Oh, dear no," he said. "I think there is no danger of that, really. But, Mr. Howard, in regard to that ah cap of yours, I... Eh?... Um... Why, dear me, I wonder " "Why is it you wonder, Mr.
You, woman," addressing the cowering medium, "didn't you say that?" "Yes oh, yes, Cap'n Jeth, I said it. PLEASE don't!" "And you pretended my dead wife's spirit said it, didn't you?" "Yes. Yes, she did. Oh oh " "She did not! Listen, all of you!" with scornful disgust. "Listen!
As she did so there sounded a prodigious thumping from the side porch and the bull-like voice of Captain Hallett bellowed his daughter's name. "Go let 'em in, Lulie," whispered Martha. "I'll look out for things here. Quick, Nelson, out this way, through the front hall and out the front door. Captain Jeth was accompanying his shouts by thumping upon the side of the house.
I was goin' to say that if you should laugh you must manage not to let any one hear you; especially Cap'n Jeth. Lulie has lots of common sense; she wouldn't mind except for the effect on her father, and she realizes how funny it is. But her father doesn't and and he is pretty close to the breakin' point sometimes. So save up your laughs until we get back, please."
Augustus Cabot by the middle of the waistcoat, and hers was no light clutch. Mr. Abel Harding shouted several words at the top of his lungs; afterward there was some dispute as to just what the exact words were, but none whatever as to their lack of propriety. Almost every one jumped or screamed or exclaimed. Only Captain Jeth Hallett, who had heard that horn many, many times, was quite unmoved.
"Why, dear me, I thought I understood that Mr. Howard was persona non grata to Captain Hallett." Martha nodded. "Well, if that means what I suppose it does, he is," she replied. "If Cap'n Jeth knew Nelson was goin' to eat supper in his house he'd go without eatin' himself to stop it. But, you see, he doesn't know. Jethro is goin' spiritualizin' to-night.
She looked at the chair by the ancient parlor organ and announced: "Yes, indeed, it'll do real well, thank you, Cap'n Jethro." Her voice was a sharp soprano with liquid gurgles in it "like pourin' pain-killer out of a bottle," this last still another quotation from the book of Zacheus. "All right," said Captain Jeth, "then we'll begin.
"Oh, especially with me, eh?" he repeated. "Well, what's the 'especially with me' for? If you think I'm any more to blame than the rest, you're mistaken. I tell you when you and me and Cap'n Jim and all hands of us got the Wellmouth Development Company goin' it looked like a cinch. How was I to know?" "I tell you, Raish, I don't want to talk about it." "And I tell you, Jeth Hallett, I DO want to.
The Bangs' story broke off in the middle. Its narrator and his young companion turned startled faces toward the sound. "Lulie!" bellowed Captain Jeth, again. "Lulie!" Lulie answered. "Why, yes, father," she said. "I am right here, at the gate. Why are you shouting so? What is the matter?" The captain seemed much surprised.
There ain't a better place for a cold storage fish house on this coast and the Wellmouth Development Company owns that place." "Yes, that's so, that's so. But some of us can afford to wait and some can't. Now I've got more of the Development Company stock than anybody else. I've got five hundred shares, Cap'n Jeth; five hundred shares at twenty dollars a share.
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