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Updated: August 9, 2024
The summons did not come on the store door. Somebody opened the gate, came to the side door and rapped. Cap'n Amazon shuffled into the hall and held parley with the caller. "Why, come right in! Sure she's here an' we're both sittin' up for comp'ny," Louise heard the captain say heartily. He ushered in Lawford Tapp.
Maybe you don't know, hey, Jim Tapp? You hear about dot cut trapeze? Aha! It vas dis poy who discovered dot in time." "Eh!" ejaculated young Tapp, with a prodigious start. "Yes," he continued very slowly, viewing Andy with a searching, hateful look. "I heard of it. Says Murdock put up the job to break Thacher's neck." "Dot vas so." "How does he know it?" "He overheardt dose schoundrels tell dot."
"You assuredly deserve your success." And the other circus people agreed with Marco. For the time being Andy heard nothing more of Tapp, Murdock and Daley. The days passed pleasantly enough. He did his work faithfully, constantly adding to his fame as an acrobat. Between Andy and Luke Belding a warm friendship sprang up. Luke had much to tell about himself.
"And to really waste your time like this loafing longshore, and sailing boats, and and driving an automobile. Why! you are a regular beach comber, Mr. Tapp. It's not much of an outlook for a man I should think." She suddenly stopped, realizing that she was showing more interest than the occasion called for. Lawford was watching her with smoldering eyes.
Why, even Lawford Tapp was amazed at your appearance. You you do look like an old pirate, Uncle Abram." "Don't I?" responded Cap'n Abe, childishly delighted. "That awful scar along your jaw and you so brown," said the girl. "How did you get that scar, Uncle Abram?" "Fallin' down the cellar steps when I was a kid," said the storekeeper.
Tapp, having received the shocking news and been revived after it. "Fancy! Mrs. Conroth's own niece!" "It's going to put us in just right with the best of the crowd at The Beaches," Prue announced. "We've only been tolerated so far." "Oh, Prudence!" admonished Mrs. Tapp. "That's the truth," her second daughter repeated bluntly. "We might as well admit it.
You just set the day so it won't conflict with your work and I'll take you out," he declared eagerly, "But won't it conflict with your duties?" "Humph!" he returned. "I thought your idea was that I didn't have any duties. However," and he smiled again, "you need not worry about that. When you want to go I will arrange everything so that I'll have a free day." "But not alone, Mr. Tapp?"
Who and what he could really be puzzled Louise quite as much as before; yet she had not the heart to probe the mystery with either question or personal scrutiny. The uncertainty regarding the Curlew and those on board filled so much of the girl's thought that little else disturbed her. Save one thing. She desired to see Lawford Tapp and talk with him.
Then he drove to the town hall, went into his office, jumped in the buggy again, and they proceeded toward the circus. "I've got a vague description of your two men," he told Andy, "but that isn't much, with so many strangers in town. You think they are partners of that Rapp, whom the circus people know?" "Tapp Jim Tapp," corrected Andy. "Yes, they mentioned his name."
"Send her spinning!" reached him in a muffled voice from the front seat. "Jump with the bag when we turn that old shed," answered other tones. "Why, say! There's only one mail bag." "I saw them bring out two. I am dead sure of it." "And this is only common letters." "How do you know?" "Jim Tapp described them 'get the leather one, he says. 'It's got the money mail in it." "Then where is it?"
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