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Now I saw that we were floating slowly toward the end of a long pier, and that we were going to land. As I leaned over the side of the vessel, I did not wonder that Captain Jabez thought Sanpritchit was not much of a place to do business in.
There's rowboats; but Sanpritchit's eight miles from here, and it's a putty long pull there and back, and I don't know anybody here who'd care to take it. If ye want to go to Sanpritchit, ye ought to go in a wagon. That's lots the easiest way." "Where can I get a horse and vehicle?" I asked quickly, so much enraged with myself that I was glad to have some one to direct my movements.
She sails fur Sanpritchit every Monday mornin', and generally stops here when she's got any freight ter leave fur the store, though I never knowed her ter come so airly in the mornin'." "My conscience!" I exclaimed. "I must get on board of her." "Aboard of her!" said he. "She's been gone more 'n half an hour.
"I am going to Sanpritchit on Monday, any way," said he; "and if you're in such a hurry to be there the first thing in the morning, I'd just as lieve sail to-morrow evening at six o'clock as not."
I thought it possible you might have become tired with the slow progress of his vessel, and had left it, to hire a horse, to get to Sanpritchit before we did. "When we reached Sanpritchit and you were not there, I was utterly unable to understand the situation; but Mrs.
Raynor sailed for Sanpritchit on Saturday, and it was not to leave here until this morning." "Sanpritchit!" he exclaimed. "This is not Sanpritchit." "What do you mean?" I asked in amazement. "That boat was bound direct for Sanpritchit." "Captain Jabe's boat?" said the man. "Yes, and so she is.
"Sanpritchit over Sunday," I repeated to myself. "It's the greatest pity," said the woman, "that they didn't know you and the other gentleman that is, if he is with you were coming back to-day, for I am sure they would have been glad to take you with them. There's room enough on that yacht, and will be more; for Mr. Heming, the gentleman that collects shells, is not coming back with them.
I lent it to Captain Neal, of Brimley, having no present use for it, and he won't bring it back till next week some time. There's a dory here, to be sure; but Sanpritchit's twenty-five miles away, and that's too far to go in a dory, especially at night. What's your hurry?" "I have very important business in Sanpritchit," I answered, "and if it is possible I must go there to-night."
I have already paid for the drive to Sanpritchit." "Have you got as much as a dollar and a half about you?" asked the boy. I replied that I had. "All right," said he; "give me that, and I'll take you to Stipbitts." The bargain was struck, I was taken to Stipbitts, and an hour afterward I was on my way to my home at Arden.
"I can't do that. I was told to take you to Sanpritchit: that's where I'm goin', and I'm goin' to bring back a box belongin' to Captain Fluke. That's what I 'in goin' to do." "I cannot get there in time," I said. "I didn't know it was so far. Take me to Stipbitts, and I will give you a dollar; then you can go along and attend to Captain Fluke's box.
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