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Updated: June 9, 2025
"No; nor like mackerel when ye get a full seine-haul," responded the storekeeper, unruffled, "but thicker'n you'd want sand fleas to be if the fleas measured up to the size of orang-outangs." Lawford Tapp burst into open laughter. "They can't catch you, can they, Cap'n Abe?" he said.
Andy made a bee-line for the clown's tent. As he neared it he glanced back over his shoulder. Tapp was still putting after him. His companion had stooped to pick up an iron tent stake from the ground. This he let drive with full force. It took Andy squarely between the shoulders, and he dropped like a shot. The breath seemed clear knocked out of Andy's body.
Tapp went down to the dock again after a time. Lawford had the Merry Andrew all ready to set out on the proposed fishing trip. The sloop was a pretty craft, clinker built, and about the fastest sailing boat within miles of Cardhaven. Lawford was proud of her. "So you're back at last, are you?" snapped the Salt Water Taffy King. He was a portly little man with a red face and a bald brow.
The Merry Andrew was a sweetly sailing boat and Lawford handled her to the open admiration of Betty Gallup. The old woman's comment would have put suspicion in Louise's mind had the girl not been utterly blind to the actual identity of the sloop's owner. "Humph! you're the only furiner, Lawford Tapp, I ever see who could sail a smack proper. But you got Cape blood in you that's what 'tis."
"Ford has the advantage, however, if he will take it. He's too modest." Mrs. Tapp's face suddenly paled and she clasped a plump hand to her bosom. "Oh, girls!" she gasped. "Now what, mother?" begged Prue. "What will I. Tapp say?" "Oh, bother father!" scoffed L'Enfant Terrible. "He doesn't care what Ford does," Prue said.
They could see men, like black specks, lashed to her after rigging. Louise, between bursting waves, counted twenty of these figures. "It may be the Curlew!" she cried to the Taffy King. "Father told me in his letter there were twenty people aboard her afore and abaft. He may be out there!" and the girl shuddered. "No, no," said I. Tapp. "Not possible. Don't think of such a thing, my girl.
They're wanted for these crooked jobs." Those addressed started on a chase, pursuant to directions of their leader who had seen Murdock and Tapp run away as he came up to the prostrate Andy. The man himself helped Andy to the clown's tent. Their entrance aroused Billy Blow, who sprang up quickly as he noticed that Andy walked in a pained, disabled fashion.
The boss's sister will have to wait on all the boarders for dinner to-day. An' my! ain't she sore! But if I'm a success in these pictures you can just believe the Cardhaven Inn won't see me passin' biscuits and clam chowder for long." In the midst of the rehearsal Louise saw a figure striding along the shore from the direction of Tapp Point, and her heart leaped.
Cecile tossed a saucy word over her shoulder, indicating Louise and Bane, and her older sisters smiled superciliously upon the two pedestrians. Louise was too deeply occupied with thoughts of the injured man to note this by-play. "Horrid taste she has, I must say," drawled Marian. Marian was the eldest of the Tapp girls.
"You know that, Miss Grayling? Louise!" "Yes. I had a little talk with your father. He's such a funny man!" "If you can find anything humorous about I. Tapp in his present mood you are a wonder!" he exclaimed. "Oh, Louise!" He could not keep his hungry gaze off her face. "You're a nice boy, Lawford," she told him, nodding. "I liked you a lot from the very first. Now I admire you." "Oh, Louise!"
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