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Good comes out o' bad sometimes. Bitter from the sweet as well. And when a man's got a repertation to maintain There was that feller Hanks, on the Lunette, out o' Nantucket. I've heard Cap'n Am'zon tell it " "Cap'n Abe!" gasped Louise. "Hi-mighty! There I go again," said the storekeeper mournfully. "You can't teach an old dog new tricks nor break him of them he's l'arned!"
"That sounds reasonable," came from the constable, who was beginning to fear the influence which Captain Putnam and the Rovers might bring to bear on the case. "It ain't no nice thing to ruin a boy's repertation, if he ain't guilty," he added. "That is a sensible speech which does you credit, sir," said the captain. "I'd like to find this feller Flapp," went on Aaron Fairchild. "How does he look?"
"An' t'other feller is a stujent?" "Yes." "Dem fellers is easy." "Then you will do the job for me, will you?" "Naw!" snorted Kelley. "Not on yer nacheral! Wot d'yer take me fer? I don't do notting of dat kind. I've got a repertation to sustain, I has." Ditson looked disappointed. "I am willing to pay well to have the job done," he sad. "Well, yer can find somebody ter do it fer yer."
"But when I come here to the Shell Road, where there warn't nobody knowed me, it struck me forcible," pursued Cap'n Abe, "that my fambly bein' so little known I could achieve a sort of vicarious repertation as a seagoin' man. "Ye see what I mean? I cal'lated if I'd had a brother a brother who warn't marked with a fear of the ocean he would ha' been a sailor. Course he would!
"Well, Uncle Jimmy-Jawed Jup'ter is jest nach'elly boon' to cuss, he's got a repertation to keep up," said Billy. He sat down in a chair in front of his aunt, crossed his legs and smiled confidentially up into her face. "Hell an' damn is jest easy ev'y day words to that nigger.
"I don't never expect to be one of these stars on the screen," she confided to Louise. "But I can make a good livin', an' ma's childern by her second husband, Mr. Vleet, has got to be eddicated. "I'm goin' to make me up a fancy name and make a repertation. They ain't goin' to call me 'Dusty Gudgeon' no more.
Of course he's dead or he'd found us, for lemme tell you, Miss, the repertation of Twomley & Sorber's Herculean Circus and Menagerie ain't a light hid under a bushel by no manner o' means!" Not if Mr. Sorber were allowed to advertise it, that was sure. But the man went on: "So there you have it. Neale's mine. I'm his uncle. His mother told me when she was dying to look after him.
It seemed that Ham Spink and his cronies had told a terrible tale of being pursued by the ghost, and of hearing awful groans and cries, and this had alarmed Mrs. Caslette very much and also Mrs. Dodge, and both ladies had requested the old hunter to visit the lake and make sure the young hunters were in no trouble. "This lake is gittin' an awful repertation," said Jed Sanborn.
So, all I should git for my care of the repertation of my fam'ly would be her ill-will, and to be 'cused by other people of stealin', and for the rest of my days she'd do all she could to spite me. For I'm sure as I stand here, Miss Mabel, that she knew, or thought she knew, somethin' 'bout that poor, despisable wretch that died up in the garret.
Haley will refuse to plead and the case will hatter be taken to a higher court. Why, Jedge Little! this here means life an' repertation to this young man, and his friends aren't goin' ter see no chance throwed away ter clear him and make them school committeemen tuck their tails atween their laigs, an' skedaddle!" "Oh, very well, Jason. We'll set the examination for next Saturday, then?"
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