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He's in the store."


CHAPTER VII
UNDER FIRE
"Uncle Amazon?" burst out Louise. "A pirate?"
"That's what he looks like," repeated Betty Gallup, nodding her head on
which the man's hat still perched. "I never saw the beat! Why, that
man give me the shock of my life when I came in here just now!"
"What _do_ you mean?" the amazed girl asked,
"Why, as I come in--I was a lettle early, knowin' you was here--I heard
as I s'posed Cap'n Abe in the sittin'-room. I saw this letter, sealed
and directed to me, on the dresser there. 'Humph!' says I, 'Who's
writin' billy-doos to _me_, I'd admire to know?' And I up and opened
it and see it's in Cap'n Abe's hand. Just then I heard him behind
me----"
"Heard _who_? Not Cap'n Abe?"
"No, no! This other feller--this Cap'n Am'zon Silt, as he calls
himself. But I _thought_ 'twas Cap'n Abe's step I heard. He says:
'Oh! you've found the letter?' I declare I thought 'twas your uncle's
voice!"
"But it was my uncle's voice, of course," Louise reminded her, much
amused, "Cap'n Amazon Silt is my uncle, too.


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