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A woman aboard! Never knew no good to come of that on any craft. What is this schooner, a passenger packet?" "You was sayin' she was already hoodooed," chuckled Horace Newbegin. "I cal'late a gal sailing one trip won't materially harm the Seamew nor her crew." "Who is she? That's what I want to know," said the supercargo, who seemed to consider the matter a personal affront.
Orion Latham lounged aft to meet her, his pale eyes betraying surprise as well as admiration. "Hi golly!" said the supercargo. "I guess you come honest by the Honey side of your family tree, Miss Bostwick, though you don't favor them much in looks." "'Rion is given to flattery," said the captain dryly. Horace Newbegin touched his forelock.
"John Newbegin came calmly forward and turned up the solitary kerosene lamp that shed uncertain light over the proceedings. He then sat down in the teacher's chair, folded his arms, and looked complacently about him. "'You might as well untie the medium, he finally remarked. 'I propose to remain in the materialized condition. "And he did remain.
Titmouse, I'll pay you the six dollars if you'll make out a satisfactory receipt for the money." "Come into the office and tell me what you want me to say in the receipt," urged Newbegin Titmouse, leading the way across the stable into a little room in the furthermost corner. The receipt was soon made out, the money paid and the receipt in Dick's pocket.
"The city men who were present, I am told, thought that the medium was masquerading in grotesque habiliments for the more complete astonishment of the islanders, but these latter rose from their seats and exclaimed with one consent: 'It is John Newbegin! And then, in not unnatural terror of the apparition they turned and fled from the schoolroom, uttering dismal cries.
Again Dick Prescott turned out to be an excellent business man. Dick was most courteous, but he refuted all of Mr. Titmouse's claims for extra payment, in the end even such a money-grubber as Mr. Newbegin Titmouse gave up the effort to extort more money for the use of his wagon than was his due.
Manned as she was, the schooner might never be worked back to a landfall if they did so. The keen old eyes of Horace Newbegin first spied the thing which promised hope. From his station at the wheel he shouted something which the younger men did not catch, but his pointing arm drew their gaze shoreward. Coming out from the Head was an open boat.
"Thinking of it from whatever standpoint, I cannot but regard John Newbegin as the pioneer of a possibly large immigration from the spirit world. The bars once down, a whole flock will come trooping back to earth. Death will lose its significance altogether.
Titmouse felt, of a sudden, very certain that the high school boy would stand by that threat. "Seven dollars doesn't land me clear for the season," complained Newbegin Titmouse. "I've spent nine dollars already in advertising the wagon." "Then, if you don't take my seven dollars," Prescott proposed, "you'll be out quite a bit of money, Mr. Titmouse. I see my car coming in the distance. So good "
"Well, what do you think of the hoodoo ship, Horrors?" he hoarsely whispered. Newbegin stared at him unwaveringly, and the red-haired one repeated the question. The old salt finally batted one eye, slowly and impressively. "D'you know what answer the little boy got that asked the quahog the time o' day?" he drawled. "Not a word. Not a derned word, 'Rion."
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