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Updated: June 23, 2025
As our philosophizing friend Zacheus is so fond of saying, I have 'all the time there is. And if time IS money why ah.... Eh? Dear me, possibly you ladies know what I am talking about; I don't." They both burst out laughing and he smiled and stroked his chin. Martha looked him over. "What makes you so nervous, Mr. Bangs?" she asked. He started and colored.
Well, if he wan't any taller'n I be he showed good jedgment.... Zacheus and Galushy and Primrose!... Godfreys!" Primmie was shocked. "Why, Zach Bloomer!" she exclaimed. "The idea of your talkin' so about a person's name you never met but just now in your lifetime." Zacheus regarded the owner of the name. "No offense meant and none given, Mr. Bangs," he observed. "Eh? That's right, ain't it?"
And the next day, last Thursday, Zacheus said Ras Beebe told him that Ophelia that's his sister, you know told him that Abel Harding told her that his wife said that Marietta Hoag told HER I HOPE I've got all the 'hims' and 'hers' straight that Cap'n Jeth Hallett was going to have another seance down at the light pretty soon.
Zach Zacheus Bloomer, I mean over to the lighthouse, you know " "There, there! Know? Of course I know Zach Bloomer, I should think I might. Don't be any sillier than the Lord made you, Primmie. It isn't necessary." "Well well, you see, Miss Martha, Zach he was over here one time a spell ago and and Well, we got to to kind of arguin' with one another er er arguin', you know." "Yes, I know.
When Jesus called the impulsive, eager Simon a rock, the hard-headed must have smiled and later remarked, "I told you so," when Peter broke under his first test; but Jesus' judgment was the truer after all. So with Mary Magdalene and Zacheus, Jesus saw in them what they might be and demonstrated that this is a world where the best has a chance.
However, everybody except the few skeptics from the Phipps' place seemed satisfied and made no embarrassing comments. Everybody but Mr. Bloomer, that is; Zacheus, the philosopher who had studied his profession aboard a lightship, commented on everything. Sitting next Mr. Bangs, he put his lips close to the ear of the last-named gentleman and breathed caustic sarcasm into it.
Galusha found it distinctly safer and less nerve-racking to walk on the grass bordering that lane than in the lane itself, as had hitherto been his custom. The harassed Zacheus led more visitors than ever up and down the lighthouse stairs, expressing his opinion of those visitors, after their departure, with fluency and freedom. Mr.
Captain Jethro, trying to fall asleep on the couch in the dining room, turned over in disgust and raised himself upon an elbow preparatory to shouting an order for silence. But Primmie's next speech caught his attention and the order was not given. "Dreamed!" retorted the indignant young woman. "Are you tryin' to tell me I only dreamed about that money, Zacheus Bloomer? Huh! My Lord of Isrul!
Galusha didn't object to them, except when they were TOO noisy at midnight or thereabouts and interfered with his slumbers. Primmie condescended to them and aired her knowledge of local celebrities and traditions. Captain Jethro ignored them utterly and Lulie was popular among them. Only Zacheus, the philosopher, seemed to find them unmitigated nuisances.
As prophesied by Mr. Zacheus Bloomer, the fog had come in and Zacheus, faithful to his duties as associate guardian of that section of the coast, had turned loose the great foghorn. The roar was terrific. The windows rattled and the whole building seemed to shake.
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