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He favored the customer with a long stare.
"Course, 'tain't none o' my business. I was just askin'----"
"You made an int'restin' discovery, then, ma'am," he said. "It _ain't_
any of your business. Me and my niece'll get along pretty average
well, I shouldn't wonder. Anything else, ma'am? I see the needle's
two cents and the pins two cents a dozen. Six cents in all."
"Well, I run a book with Cap'n Abe. I ain't got no money with me,"
said the young woman defiantly.
"Le's see; what did you say your name was?" and Cap'n Amazon drew from
the cash drawer a long and evidently fully annotated list of customers'
names, prepared by Cap'n Abe.
"I'm Mandy Baker--she 'twas Mandy Card."
"Yes. I find you here all right. Your bill o' ladin' seems good.
Good-mornin', ma'am. Call again."
Mandy Baker looked as though she desired to continue the conversation.
But there was that in Cap'n Amazon's businesslike manner and speech
that impressed Mrs. Baker--as it had Lawford Tapp--that here was a very
different person from the easy-going, benign Cap'n Abe.


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