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"But this money " "Don't stop another moment, my boy," interrupted the rich merchant. "If your father's hotel is as good as you say it is, we may stay there a week." Under this imperative order, Leopold thrust the bills into his pocket, and leaped into the Rosabel.
Rosabel and Isabel were in excellent spirits, and, as the bay was tolerably smooth, so was Charley Redmond. Stumpy, dressed in his Sunday clothes, looked more like a gentleman than usual. Mr. Redmond tried to make fun of him before the girls, but Stumpy was too much for him, and retorted so smartly that he turned the laugh upon the fop.
The quarries have all stopped working, and the fishermen have gone to the war," said Leopold, as the Rosabel reached her landing place near the hotel, where she was carefully moored; and the boys went on shore. "By the way, Stumpy," continued the skipper, as they walked up the steep path towards the road, "you said I might be able to do something to help your mother out of her trouble.
He went over to the telephone exchange and called up the Vick house. Rosabel answered. "That you, Rosie?...Well, I couldn't. I've been laid up, completely out of commission ever since I saw you....What?...I I didn't get that, Rosie. Speak louder, closer to the telephone." Very distinctly now came the words, almost in a wail: "Oh, Courtney, why why do you lie to me?" "Lie to you?
By the time he had finished the work, the Rosabel had been hauled up to the beach, and the painter of the old boat attached to her stern. In a few moments the money-digger and his friend were under way, standing towards the mouth of the river. "I don't see why my father should be worried about me," said Leopold, as he seated himself at the tiller.
She took to the leaf-strewn woodland roads, and there was a definite goal in mind. Courtney remembered Rosabel Vick. "I guess I'd better call her up," he said to himself. "I ought to have done it several days ago. Beastly rotten of me to have neglected it. She's probably been sitting over there waiting ever since Gad, she may; have some good news. Maybe she is mistaken."
White informed the girls after her departure was the social limit for a first call. "But we were talking of something that could not possibly be finished in that time," Dorothy had complained. "All the better chance for Rosabel to show off her manners," said Mrs. White with a laugh, for she had never agreed that young girls should enter society on stilts.
I have promised to send young Cale the Sun for a year without charging him a cent. Old man Brown says Amos Vick's daughter Rosabel isn't at all well. Something like walking typhoid, he says, mopes a good deal and don't sleep well." "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that," exclaimed Courtney, real concern in his voice. "She was such a lively, light-hearted girl when I was over there.
"Stumpy is better than Wormy," added Charley Redmond. "Hoist the jib," said Leopold. The Rosabel went off with a brisk breeze, at a speed which immediately rekindled the enthusiasm of the girls; and, to prolong the sail, Leopold stood off into the bay, going around a small rocky island, a mile from the light-house.
The soft splashing against the broad, square bow of the old-fashioned ferry served to increase his nervousness. The horrid fancy struck him that Rosabel Vick was out there ahead clawing at the slimy timbers in the vain effort to draw herself out of the water....He wished to God he had not come. He was the first person off the ferry when it came to a stop on the farther side of the river.
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