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She was rather small, dressed in the extreme mode in a cheap way, wearing a tawdry gilt chain, several rings, and a wrist watch. There was something about her which reminded Tunis very strongly of the girls of Portygee Town, although she was a pronounced blonde. Her hair was really her only attractive possession. Those sharp brown eyes did not please Tunis Latham at all.
There they are, billin' and cooin', just where we left 'em when we went ashore. Wouldn't it sicken you?" But Johnny only grinned and chuckled, shaking the tiny gold rings in his ears till they sparkled in the faint light. He had a girl himself in Portygee Town, at Big Wreck Cove.
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.
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!"
Stevie D. had curly hair like that and HE was part Portygee, you remember; though there was a little nigger blood in him, too, she says. I could have shook her! And then she went to rattlin' that bag again." Even Mr. Keeler congratulated him at the office next morning. "You done well, Al," he said. "Yes yes yes. You done fust-rate, fust-rate."
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!"
Not only had Tony, the boy, left, but one of the foremast hands did not put in an appearance. A grinning Portygee boy came to the wharf and announced that "Paul, he iss ver' seek." Tunis knew it would be useless to go after the man, just as it had been useless to go after Tony.
And Tunis Latham went on to the wharf where the Seamew tied up with a warmth at his heart which he had never experienced before. That another girl rose betimes on these mornings and waited and watched for him to pass, the young schooner captain never noticed. That Eunez Pareta should be lingering about the edge of Portygee Town as he came down from the Head made small impression on his mind.
But a year later he had so far relented as to give reluctant consent for Jane and the child to come, provided her condemned husband did not accompany them. "If that low-lived Portygee sets foot on my premises, so help me God, I'll kill him!" declared the captain. In his vernacular all foreigners were "Portygees." But Jane was as proud and stubborn as he.
"I wonder if it is a Portygee notion or something else," said Tunis Latham, his eyes fixed on the back of Orion, busy, for once, at the other rail. "Whatever it is, Captain Latham," said Mason Chapin with gravity, "I suggest you fill your berths at Boston." "Guess I'll have to. But the offscourings of the city docks! They will be worse than these Portygees." It was not a prospect he welcomed.
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