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"East Harniss is blessed with a great man, Bailey, and, like consider'ble many blessin's he ain't entirely unmixed." Obed and Simeon looked puzzled, but Captain Stitt bounced in his chair like a good-natured rubber ball. "Ho! ho!" he chuckled, "you don't surprise me, Sol. We had a great man over to South Orham three years ago and he begun by blessin's and ended with with t'other thing. Ho! ho!"
And since the word come, you know I I well, I've had some fight, some fight. I I don't cal'late I've slept more'n four hours in the last four nights not more'n that, no. Walkin' helps me most, seems so. Last night I walked to West Orham." "To West Orham! You WALKED there? Last NIGHT?" "Um-hm. Long's I can keep walkin' I I seem to part way forget to forget the stuff, you know.
The Captain had bad luck in the "matching" that followed the meal, and it was nearly eight o'clock before he finished washing dishes. This distasteful task being completed, he set out for the Baxter homestead. The Captain's views on the liquor question were broader than those of many Orham citizens.
Whenever he thought it safe to do so he aired these opinions and, as there were a few of what Captain Hunniwell called "yellow-backed swabs" in Orham or its neighborhood, he occasionally had sympathetic listeners. Phineas, it is only fair to say, had never heretofore shown any marked interest in labor except to get as much of it for as little money as possible.
Atkins. Emily's mother was a Thayer, wasn't she? and the Thayers once lived in Orham. I wish we could find out more about them while they lived there." Asaph Tidditt pulled his beard thoughtfully. "Well," he observed, "maybe we can, if we want to, though I don't think what we find out 'll amount to nothin'. I was kind of cal'latin' to go to Orham next week on a little visit.
"WHAT?" This was the trio in chorus. Then Captain Eri said: "Mr. Hazeltine, now, honest and true, is that a fact?" "Of course it's a fact." The Captain wiped his forehead. "Mr. Hazeltine," he said, "if anybody had told me a fortn't ago that I was one of the three biggest fools in Orham, I'd have prob'ly rared up some. As 'tis now, I cal'late I'd thank him for lettin' me off so easy.
"You know you know I don't think anything you've done is wrong. I ain't got the right to think any such thing as that. And as for keepin' still why, I I did hope you wouldn't feel 'twas necessary to ask that." "I don't I don't. I know you and I trust you. You are the only person in Orham whom I have trusted. You know that." "Why, yes why, yes, I do know it and and I'm ever so much obliged to you.
"And, to put a head on the whole business, I'm blessed if Tobias Loveland didn't get in with an automobile agent who was stoppin' in Orham and buy a fifteen-hundred-dollar machine off him. And the very next time Jonadab was out with the Queen on the Denboro road, Tobias and the widow whizzed past him in that car so fast he might as well have been hove to.
"He has been so kind to grandfather and me," said Elsie, "that I feel as though we were under an obligation we never could repay. When I came down here I knew no one in Orham, and he and Captain Jerry and Captain Perez have made me feel more at home than I have ever felt before. You know," she added, "grandfather is the only relative I have."
Jed gingerly shook the extended hand and fled, his face scarlet. During the following week, although he saw his neighbors each day, and several times a day, Mrs. Armstrong did not mention her brother or the chance of his employment in the Orham bank. Jed, very much surprised at her silence, was tempted to ask what her decision was, or even if she had arrived at one.
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