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Do you know
what I was doing when I was your age? I had a booth at 'Gansett, two
at Newport, a big one at Atlantic City, and was beginning to branch
out. I worked like a dog, too."
"That's why I think I don't have to work, dad," said Lawford coolly.


CHAPTER IX
SUSPICION HOVERS
Betty Gallup, clothed as usual in her man's hat and worn pea-coat, but
likewise on this occasion with mystery, seized Louise by the hand the
instant she appeared and drew her into the kitchen, shutting the door
between that and the living-room.
"What is the matter?" the girl asked. "Have you broken something--or
is the canary dead?"
"Sh!" warned Betty, her little brown eyes blinking rapidly. "I heard
something last night."
"I didn't. I slept like a baby. The night before I heard that old
foghorn----"
"I mean," interrupted Betty, "something was told me."
"Well, go on." Louise made up her mind that she could not stem the
tide of talk.
"About your uncle, Cap'n Abe. He--he never was seen to take that train
to Boston.


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