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"A mail bag a boy?" repeated Andy, with a start of intelligence. "Did you hear his name?" "Yes, in a talk that followed. The man with him called him Jim." "Jim Tapp," murmured Andy. "He called the man Murdock." "I thought so," Andy said to himself. "They put up that mail robbery." "They cut open the bag and took out a lot of letters," continued Luke. "A few of them had money in them.
Just as we are getting in with the Perritons. And their guest, Mrs. Conroth, was really very nice to mother this morning on the beach. She has the open sesame to all the society there is on this side of the Atlantic. It's really a wonderful chance for us, Ford." "And he's bound to spoil it all!" Mrs. Tapp sobbed into an expensive bit of lace. "You might be a good sport, Fordy, dear," urged Prue.
Very likely, however, they had been given him, second-hand, by some member of the family for which he worked. The more she saw of him, and the more she thought about it, the greater was Louise's disappointment in Lawford Tapp.
It could not be possible that Lawford Tapp had descried and recognized the figure of the girl from the Tapp anchorage! He no longer wore his hip boots. After shutting off his engine, he guided the sharp prow of the launch right up into the sand and leaped into shallow water, bringing ashore the bight of the painter to throw over a stub sunk above high-water mark. "Good-morning!
Many times a day he lost his temper and, as Lawford phlegmatically expressed it, "blew up." These exhibitions meant nothing particularly to Mr. Tapp. They were escape-valves for a nervous irritability that had grown during his years of idleness.
To tell the truth, the accident to Lawford Tapp had frightened her dreadfully at the moment it occurred. Betty Gallup put over the wheel and the Merry Andrew, still under propulsion of the bursting squall, flew about, almost on her heel.
She saw only the boots and legs of the person at first; but the fog was fast separating into wreaths which the rising breeze hurried away, and the girl at the window soon saw the full figure of the approaching man and recognized him. At almost the same moment Lawford Tapp raised his eyes and saw her; and his heart immediately beat the call to arms.
And his top hamper ain't none too secure, Niece Louise." "Oh, did I?" laughed the girl, understanding perfectly. "How nice." "Nice? That's how ye take it. Lawford Tapp ain't a fav'rite o' mine." "But he seemed very accommodating to-day when I asked him how to reach your store." "So you met him up town?" "Yes, Uncle Abe." "He's perlite enough," scolded the storekeeper.
As she retied the ribbon in one of the sleeves of her nightgown she thought: "And that Tapp boy came back a second time! Some fisherman's son, I suppose. But exceedingly nice looking!" A little later the feather bed had taken her into its arms and she almost instantly fell asleep. Occasionally through the night she was roused by unfamiliar sounds.
But he betrayed an ability and a training that should already have raised him above his present situation in the social scale, as Louise understood it. She was disappointed, and although she bade Lawford Tapp good-bye pleasantly she was secretly unhappy. The next morning she chanced to need several little things that were not to be found in Cap'n Abe's store and she went uptown in quest of them.
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