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Lancaster puzzled even so old a veteran as Mrs. Nailor. Mrs. Nailor was an adept in the art of inquisition. To know about her friends' affairs was one of the objects of her life, and it was not only the general facts that she insisted on knowing: she proposed to be acquainted with their deepest secrets and the smallest particulars.
As they drove out of the grounds they passed a good-looking young fellow just going in. Keith recognized Dr. Locaman. "That is the young man who is so attentive to your young friend," said Mrs. Nailor; "Dr. Locaman. He saved her life and now is going to marry her." It gave Keith a pang. "I know him. He did not save her life. If anybody did that, it was an old country doctor, Dr. Balsam."
"No, squire. Better leave them and the fish-houses and work on Boughton's store and the cottages. They're right in the path of the wind. It'll be tough on Nailor and Thomas to lose their stand and houses, but you know what will happen if the fire gets into the dwellings."
Nailor or some others was, perhaps, after all, slander, and that Mr. Wickersham was not aware of the injury he was doing Mrs. Wentworth. She would appeal to his better nature. She lay in wait several times without being able to meet him in a way that would not attract attention. At length she wrote him a note, asking him to meet her on the street, as she wished to speak to him privately.
The first was for assaulting John Molton in an open field, putting him in fear, and taking from him four shillings; the second was for assaulting Mary Butler and taking from her sixpence in money; the third was for assaulting Nicholas Butler, and taking from him half a guinea and one shilling; the fourth was for assaulting Anne Nailor, and taking from her three and sixpence in money.
"You have such a gift for knowing people?" she said to her, "and your daughter is so like you?" She showed her even teeth. Mrs. Yorke was not quite sure what she meant, and she answered somewhat coldly that she was glad that Mrs. Nailor thought so. Mrs. Nailor soon indicated her meaning. "The young schoolmaster he is a schoolmaster in whom your daughter is interested, isn't he? Yes?
They took to riding together, walking together, and seeing a great deal of each other, the elder lady spending much of her time up at Miss Huntington's home, among the shrubbery and flowers of the old place. It was a mystification to Mrs. Nailor, who frankly confessed that she could only account for it on the ground that Mrs.
She proposed a surprise. She spoke of Keith and noticed the increased interest with which the girl listened. This was promising. "By the way," she said, "you know the report is that Mr. Keith has at last really surrendered?" "Has he? I am so glad. If ever a man deserved happiness it is he. Who is it?" The entire absence of self-consciousness in Lois's expression and voice surprised Mrs. Nailor.
"Are you suited?" said Nailor, when the hinder end o' Lang Lammitter was slidden through the sill an' the head of Lammitter was lost in the smoke away above. 'The American man took out his card and put it on the table. "Esdras B. Longer is my name, America is my nation, 'Frisco is my resting-place, but this here beats Creation," said he.
Keith, with some amusement, declared that he did not wish any trouble taken; he had only said he would go because Mrs. Nailor had appeared to desire it so much. Next morning an invitation reached Keith, he thought he knew through whose intervention, and he accepted it. That evening, as Keith, about dusk, was going up the avenue on his way home, a young girl passed him, walking very briskly.
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