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Mandy Baker, who took her husband's rating in
women's eyes at his own valuation, was up in arms. A pretty girl, and
an actress at that!--for until recent years that was a word to be only
whispered in polite society on the Cape--was considered by such as
Mandy to be under suspicion right from the start.
The mystery of Cap'n Amazon, however, quite overtopped the gossip about
Louise. Idlers who seldom dropped into the store before afternoon came
on this day much earlier to have a look at Cap'n Amazon Silt. Women
left their housework at "slack ends" to run over to the store for
something considered suddenly essential to their work. Some of the
clam-diggers lost a tide to obtain an early glimpse of Cap'n Amazon.
Even the children came and peered in at the store door to see that
strange, red-kerchief-topped figure behind Cap'n Abe's counter.
Cap'n Joab Beecher was one of the earliest arrivals. Cap'n Joab had
been as close to Cap'n Abe as anybody in Cardhaven. There had been
some little friction between him and the storekeeper on the previous
evening.


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