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She was waiting, to the very last minute, for her "Uncle Cyrus." "Hello, shipmate," he hailed. "Not headed for school yet? Good! I cal'late you needn't go this afternoon. I'm thinkin' of hirin' a team and drivin' to Ostable, and I didn't know but you'd like to go with me. Think you could, without that teacher woman havin' you brought up aft for mutiny?" Bos'n thought it over.

He was silent and, for him, grumpy all the forenoon. Another fortnight passed before the subject of the decision which must, sooner or later, be given Judge Baxter was mentioned by either of the pair. Mary-'Gusta was growing accustomed to the life in the South Harniss home. She found it a great improvement over that which she had known on Phinney's Hill at Ostable. There was no Mrs.

The horses trotted on at a lively pace, and the miles separating Ostable and Bayport were subtracted one by one. It was magnificent winter weather. The snow had disappeared from the road, except in widely separated spots, but the big drifts still heaped the fields and shone and sparkled in the sunshine.

The poor old parson has failed consider'ble and Maria Price's housekeepin' and cookin' is enough to make a well man sick or wish he was. But he'll be looked after now. Helen will look after him. She's the most capable girl there is in Ostable County. Did she tell you about what she done in the Red Cross and the hospitals?" "She said something about it, not very much." "Um-hm.

Just set there, looking fishy-eyed at the floor. Next morning I met Eben prancing around in his Sunday clothes and with a necktie on that would make a rainbow look like a mourning badge. "Hello!" says I. "You seem to be pretty chipper. You ain't going to start for that fifteen-mile ride through the woods to Ostable, be you? Looks to me as if 'twas going to rain."

Meanwhile the assemblage about the stove had put Captain Cy on the anvil and was hammering him vigorously. Bayport was boiling over with rumor and surmise. Heman had appealed to the courts asking that Captain Cy's appointment as Bos'n's guardian be rescinded. Cy had hired Lawyer Peabody, of Ostable, to look out for his interests. Mr. Atkins and the captain had all but come to blows over the child.

I presume likely," he added, "there ain't anybody in Ostable County that can be so busy as I can be doin' nothin' important." "And you can spare a few minutes? I I want to talk to you very much. I won't be long, really." He regarded her intently. Then he walked toward the door leading to the little workroom.

I have been talking with Judge Baxter over at Ostable I stopped there on my way to Boston and he suggested that they might mortgage and raise money that way. It could be done, couldn't it? Mortgages are a kind of business I don't know anything about. They sound horrid." "Sometimes they are. Miss Lathrop, if I were you I shouldn't sell or mortgage yet.

I hope 'twill be fair, too, 'cause I was cal'lating to get a day off and borrer your horse and buggy and go over to the Ostable camp-meeting. It's the big day over there," he says. Now, I knew of course, that he meant he was going to take the widder with him, but Peter spoke up and says he: "Sorry, Beriah, but you're too late. Eben asked me for the horse and buggy this morning.

When did you see George Taylor?" She appeared confused. "I I Of course I saw him at the house this noon, when he came to see Father." "But he could not have promised you then. He had helped me already. Did you see him before that?" "Why, how could I? I " "Miss Colton, answer me. Was it you that met him at the Ostable station this morning? Was it?"