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"I don't wonder at that. Just think it over and we'll have another talk later." Mr. Keith and the Captain had that later talk several talks, in fact and a week after their first one Captain Shadrach suddenly announced that he was cal'latin' to run up to Boston just for a day on business and that Mary-'Gusta had better go along with him for company.
When her uncles returned she said nothing of the occurrence. She considered it funny, but she knew Crawford Smith did not, and she was sure he would prefer to have the secret kept. The following afternoon the partners of Hamilton and Company entertained a caller at the store. That evening Shadrach spoke of the call to Mary-'Gusta.
But for all Ostable yes, and a large part of South Harniss to be engaged in speculation concerning the future of Mary-'Gusta was surprising, for, prior to Marcellus's death, very few outside of the Hall household had given her or her future a thought.
Her cheeks were red and Keith was surprised to notice that she looked almost as if she would like to cry. He guessed the reason. "That young man will get himself thoroughly kicked some day," he observed; "I'm not sure that I oughtn't to have done it myself just now. He annoyed you, I'm afraid." Mary-'Gusta answered without looking at him. "That's all right," she said. "I'm foolish, I guess.
And look here, Mary-'Gusta, don't you ever touch it again and don't you ever tell either of your uncles or anybody else that you found it. You hear?" Mary-'Gusta said that she heard. She ran to the garret and replaced the photograph in the pocket of the trunk. She did not mention it again nor did Isaiah, but thereafter when her active imagination constructed a life romance with Mr.
Wonder he didn't want to borrer my Sunday hat to practice shootin' at." Mary-'Gusta considered shooting a cat the height of cruelty and dreadfulness but she was aware of the universal condemnation of chicken stealing and kept her thought to herself. Besides, she had her own wickedness to consider.
You must go right to sleep again, dearie." "Yes, sir," said Mary-'Gusta, obediently. Then she added, "I said my prayers to myself but I'll say 'em to you if you want me to." The embarrassed Captain would have protested, but the girl's mind seemed to be made up. "I guess I will say 'em again," she said. "There's somethin' in 'em maybe you'd ought to hear." She closed her eyes.
Whether or not the watch was fine enough for their Mary-'Gusta had been a source of worriment and much discussion. And then Isaiah, with his customary knack of saying the wrong thing, tossed a brickbat into the puddle of general satisfaction. "That's so," he said; "that's so, Mary-'Gusta.
Anyhow, all this afternoon I've had a funny feelin' that you and me and Mary-'Gusta was well was as if the tide had been comin' in for us all these years since she's been livin' with us, and as if now 'twould begin to go out again." The Captain laughed. "And that's what you call a FUNNY feelin'!" he exclaimed.
Zoeth, when his niece questioned him, expressed confidence that the new competitors would not prove dangerous. "The Almighty has looked after us so far," he added, "unworthy as we be, and I guess he'll carry us the rest of the way. Put your trust in Him, Mary-'Gusta; I hope they teach you that up to school."
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