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Updated: May 25, 2025
Seeing that Cap'n Amazon was busy with some men he had met, the girl walked out to the little vestibule of the church. Here a number of women and men were discussing various matters the sermon, the weather, clamming, boating, and the colony at The Beaches. Two women stood apart from the others and presently Louise was attracted to them by the sound of Lawford Tapp's name.
The amazing difference between the storekeeper's well remembered appearance and that of his substitute grew more startling. As Cap'n Amazon stood there half stooping, leaning on his hairy fists, the picture rose in Lawford Tapp's mind of a pirate, cutlass in teeth and his sash full of pistols, swarming over the rail of a doomed ship.
Lawford turned a grim face upon his father. "I earn eighteen a week, dad. I am my own boss." A soft palm was placed upon I. Tapp's lips before he could reply. Louise was weeping frankly, but she urged: "Don't stop him, Mr. Tapp. Don't say another word to him. My my heart is breaking; but I am glad oh, I am so glad! that he is a real man."
Until now she had considered Lawford Tapp's tendencies toward living such an irresponsible existence as all wrong for him. The rather exciting information she had just gained changed her mental attitude toward the young man entirely. Louise gave no consideration whatsoever to Aunt Euphemia's snobbish stand in the matter of Lawford's social position.
Bile 'em, an' serve with an egg sauce, is my way o' puttin' 'em on the table." "That was Cap'n Abe's way, too," muttered Betty. The cloud on Lawford Tapp's countenance did not lift immediately as he sculled them out to the anchored sloop. Louise saw quickly that his ill humor was for Bane. "I must keep this young man at a distance," she thought, as she waved her hand to Uncle Amazon and Mr. Bane.
His demands on the paternal purse had been more reasonable than most young men of his class perhaps, because of his naturally simple tastes and the life he had led outside the classroom. Without having "gone in" for athletics at Cambridge he was essentially an out-of-door man. Nevertheless, to stand in open revolt against I. Tapp's command was a very serious thing to do.
Some bodies of horse soon presented an opportunity for a charge, and the squadrons of the 3rd Cavalry, and Tapp's irregulars, who had hitherto been on the right front, dashed at them, accompanied by Blake's horse artillery, and made a sweeping and most brilliant charge, sabring gunners, and fairly driving the enemy's horse off the field.
As though the half-conscious professor were a child, he lowered him to the slanting deck. "Only room for one o' you!" roared Cap'n Trainor. "Only one! We're overloaded as 'tis. Better wait." "You'll take him!" shouted Cap'n Abe, and dropped his burden at Lawford Tapp's feet. The next moment the lifeboat shot away from the side of the wreck, leaving the Man Who Was Afraid marooned upon her deck.
Aunt Euphemia was out of the question, of course; although she must reveal to her the possible peril menacing Professor Grayling. Betty Gallup could not be trusted, Louise knew. And the day dragged by its limping hours without Lawford Tapp's coming near the store on the Shell Road. This last Louise could not understand. But there was good reason for Lawford's effacing himself at this time.
Why is everybody running so? What has happened?" The Taffy King had a most puzzling expression upon his face. He glared at her as though he did not hear what she said. In his hand he clutched an envelope. "Ha! That you, Miss Grayling?" he growled. "Seen Ford?" "No. Is he at home?" "He's here fast enough," was I. Tapp's ungracious rejoinder. "I supposed he'd come over to see you."
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