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chummin' won't sarve ye. _Good_-night!"
After getting rid of this importunate customer, Cap'n Abe closed his
door and put out his store lights--an hour earlier than usual--and came
back to sit down with Louise. His visage was red and determination sat
on his brow.
"I snum!" he emphatically observed. "Cardhaven folks seem bit with
some kind o' bug. Talk 'bout curiosity! 'Hem! I dunno what Cap'n
Am'zon'll think of 'em."
"_I_ think they are funny," Louise retorted, her laughter bubbling up
again.
"Likely it looks so to you," said Cap'n Abe. "They're pretty average
funny I do guess to a stranger, as ye might say. But after you've
summered 'em and wintered 'em for twenty-odd years like I have, land
sakes! the humor's worn hi-mighty thin!"


CHAPTER V
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE NIGHT
Cap'n Abe produced a pipe. He looked at his niece tentatively.
"Do--do you mind tobacker smoke?"
"Daddy-prof is an inveterate," she laughed.
"Huh? An--an invet'rate _what_?"
"Smoker. I don't begrudge a man smoking tobacco as long as we women
have our tea.


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