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She halted to stare particularly at the quietly dressed girl driving the gray mare. "Ain't that Pareta's girl, Ira?" asked Prudence. "I cal'late." "What a bold-looking thing she's grown to be! But she's pretty." "As a piney," agreed Cap'n Ira. "I reckon she sets all these Portygee boys by the ears. I hear tell two of 'em had a knife fight over her in Luiz's fish house some time ago.
"Trying to make them think my beautiful Seamew was once the Marlin B.? Why, the poor fools, this broken oar came out of Mike Pareta's woodpile, or I'm a dog-fish! See that blue streak? I saw this broken oar at Pareta's house. Bet you anything Eunez had something to do with it, too. Though why she should want to harm me, who never said a cross word to her, I can't see."
Tunis left the mate and Horry to carry on while he took the passenger ashore, meaning to spend the night himself at home with Aunt Lucretia. He stopped to get Eunez Pareta's father to harness up his old horse and transfer Miss Bostwick's trunk and bag to the Ball homestead. Eunez was in evidence as she always was when Tunis came by a bird of paradise indeed.
As he drew near to Portygee Town, he glanced toward the open door of Pareta's cottage and saw the girl, Eunez, seated upon the step. She did not come out to meet him, as had been her wont, but she hailed him as he approached though in a sharper tone than usual. "So Captain Tunis Latham has still another girl? He is a lion with the ladies, it is plain to be seen. Ah!"
And they say the schooner is a murder ship and they won't try to work her no further." Tunis seized the piece of oar. Along one side was a streak of faint blue paint. He knew immediately where he had seen that broken oar before leaning against the door frame of Pareta's cottage in Portygee Town, when he had last talked with the old man's daughter. "What in thunder!"
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