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"Thank you!" she said with just enough dignity to warn him to keep his
distance if he chanced to be contemplating anything familiar. "But I
shall dine at the hotel first."
A brighter color flooded into his cheeks and Louise felt that she might
have been too sharp with him. She mended this by adding:
"You may tell me how to get to the Shell Road and Mr. Silt's, if you will
be so kind."
He smiled at that. Really, he was an awfully nice-looking youth! She
had no idea that these longshore fishermen would be so gentlemanly and so
good looking.
"Oh, you can't miss it. Take the first left-hand street, and keep on it.
Cap'n Abe's store is the only one beyond the Mariner's Chapel."
"Thank you," she said again and mounted the broad steps of the Inn. The
young fellow hesitated as though he were inclined to enter too. But when
Louise reached the piazza and glanced quickly down at him, he was moving
on.
The cool interior of a broad hall with a stairway mounting out of it and
a screened dining-room at one side, welcomed the girl.


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