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"Trust me," agreed the captain of the Seamew, and followed after little John-Ed with such tremendous strides that the latter had to run to keep ahead of him. Tunis was led to that point on the bluff from which a curl of smoke from the cabin chimney could be seen. He halted almost in horror stricken to the heart when he understood. "Alone?" he muttered. "Yep," was the reply.
She returned to the Day house early on Sunday morning, and her unobservant aunt did not notice the marks the young girl's sleepless night had left upon her countenance. Aunt 'Mira was too greatly distracted just then about a new gown she, with the help of Mrs. John-Ed. Hutchins, had made and was to wear for the first time on this occasion.
But already little John-Ed was a henchman of hers, in spite of the fact that Sheila often had made him work. "I am going to stay here for a while," she told him. "But I would rather nobody but you knew about it." "By the great jib boom!" exploded the boy for a second time. "Not even Cap'n Ira and Aunt Prudence?" "Not even them," sighed the girl.
Down the bank, along with a small avalanche of sand and gravel, plunged little John-Ed and his freckled face appeared at the doorway. "By the great jib boom!" he cried. "What you doing here? Playing castaway?" "Yes, John-Ed," said Sheila. "That is it exactly. I am a castaway." He stared at her. She could not take this boy into her confidence.
Tunis could not have walked up to any adult person on Wreckers' Head and asked the question which he put to little John-Ed on the spur of the moment: "Where is she?" He did not have to utter Sheila's name. Indeed, he was doubtful by what name it would be wise to call her. But he did not have to be plainer with little John-Ed.
It was too late in the season, of course, for much new growth in the vegetable beds; but the half-hearted attention of John-Ed, junior, had never brought about this metamorphosis, Tunis well knew. He went on to the Latham house, feeling well pleased. Aside from all other considerations, he was glad to know that his Machiavellian plan had brought about these good results.
Sheila had been about to send little John-Ed around for Queenie and the carryall, but Orion put the boy aside with a self-assured grin. "Nobody ain't going to put you in the carriage, Ida May, but me," he declared. "I'll get the old mare." He seized his cap and went out. In a few minutes they had said good-bye, and the old couple and the girl went out on the church steps.
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