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Is she all right? "Captain Abner threw a glance over the water as if his soul were yearning for the fancied possibilities of Thompsontown. 'Oh, it's all right enough, so far as she counts, said he. 'I went straight at it, and put the whole thing afore her.
Sam Twitty made a motion as if he would dance a little in his slippered feet. "'That's jes like runnin' across a dead whale what's jes expired of too much fat. All you've got to do is to cut it up and try it down. The fust thing Cap'n Abner does is to run into a widow woman that'll suit him, I believe, better than anybody he'll meet, if he cruises around Thompsontown for a week.
This gentleman, who did not seem to know any one in Thompsontown, proved to be a thorough landsman; but as he was chatty and glad to acquire knowledge, it gave Captain Abner and Sam a great deal of pleasure to talk to him on nautical points and thereby improve his mind. On their return, Sam stopped with a start, and almost dropped his pipe. "'What's the matter? cried Captain Abner.
His soul resented all this, and he saw that the edge of the sun was nearly touching the rim of the distant sea. With a great slap upon his thigh, he sprang to the side of the boat, and turned and faced the others, all of whom were now approaching him. "'I am to sail this boat back to Thompsontown, he cried.
There's lots of people of all sorts in Thompsontown, and I don't see why she shouldn't be one of them. "'No more do I, said Sam Twitty. 'I think it's more'n likely she'll be one of them. "Very early the next morning, almost before the first streaks of dawn, Captain Abner was awakened by a voice under his window. "'Shipmate ahoy! said the voice, which was Sam Twitty's.
"Thompsontown was a seaside resort, and rather a lively place in the season. There was a large hotel for summer visitors who could afford to pay good prices, and several smaller houses of entertainment, such as the Spinnaker Boom, where people of moderate means were made very comfortable.
"At last they got away, and as they drove slowly out of the little village not one of the inhabitants thereof knew anything about their intended journey, except that they were going to Thompsontown; for Captain Abner and Sam Twitty would have as soon thought of boring a hole in the bottom of a boat in which they were to sail as of telling their neighbors they were going to look for her and to bring her back in that spring-wagon.
I don't believe you'd find a better one in Thompsontown. "'Sam Twitty! exclaimed Abner, rather testily, 'what are you talkin' about?
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