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"'Do you remember Patrick Kelly in Orham? he asks. "'Who? says I. 'Pat Kelly, the Irishman, that lived in the little old shack back of your barn? Course I do. But he's been dead for I don't know how long. "'I know he has. Do you remember his boy Jim that run away from home? "'Let's see, I says. 'Seems to me I do. Freckled, red-headed rooster, wa'n't he?
Lightest car of her speed ever turned out. "'Go 'way! How you talk! Seventy-five hundred what? Not dollars? "'Sure, he says. Then he turns round he was in the bow, hangin' on to the steerin' wheel and looks me over, kind of interested, but superior. 'Say, he says, 'I've been hearin' things about you. You're a hero, ain't you? "Durn them Orham gabblers!
I've got a message to him from his poor dead father back in Orham. We come all the way from Orham, Mass. to find him and "The police cap'n turned around then and stared at him hard. 'Humph! says he, after a spell. 'Go over there and set down till I want you. No, you'll go now and we'll waste no breath on it. Go on, do you hear!
"Well, anyhow, this critter Billings, he ain't never smelt salt water afore, and he don't like the smell. He makes proclamations that Orham is nothin' but sand, slush, and soft drinks.
They reached that part of Orham which is called the Neck, and pulled up before a small building bearing the sign "Solomon Bangs, Attorney-at-Law, Real Estate and Insurance." Here the Captain turned to his companion and asked, "Sure you haven't changed your mind, Elsie? You want that school-teachin' job?" "I haven't changed my mind, Captain Eri." "Well, I wanted to be sure.
"Well, I thought of her. She's all night, isn't she?" "Yes, I s'pose she is. 'Twould be better if she lived in Orham, maybe, and folks couldn't say you went out of town for a teacher when you could have had one right from home. Then, she's some relation of your cousin, ain't she? 'Course, that's all right, but well, you can't pay attention to everything that's said."
By the time the "Araminta's" nose slid up on the sloping beach at the foot of the bluff before the Winslow place she held two conscience-stricken culprits instead of one. And if Ruth Armstrong slept but little that night, as her daughter said had been the case the night before, she was not the only wakeful person in that part of Orham.
For the average Orham family to sit in the parlor on a week evening would be an act bordering pretty closely on sacrilege. It is from the hill by the Methodist church that the visitor to Orham gets his best view of the village. It is all about him, and for the most part below him.
What he liked about her, he said, was her "good old-fashioned common-sense," and, whereas he had formerly trusted to his own share of this virtue almost altogether, now he was glad to have hers to help out. The marriage idea, that which had brought the housekeeper to Orham, was now seldom mentioned. In fact, Captain Eri had almost entirely ceased to ruffle Jerry's feelings with reference to it.
When it was over the young man walked home with him and the pair sat and talked until after midnight, just as on the previous night. The following evening it was much the same, except that, as Mr. Keeler pronounced himself more than usually "shaky" and expressed a desire to "keep movin'," they walked half way to Orham and back before parting.
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