This
Perry Baker, the expressman, must know that Cap'n Abe sent the trunk
from the house, here."
"Humph! Yes! Nobody's denyin' that."
"Then Cap'n Abe must have known exactly what he wished to do. Cap'n
Amazon surely had nothing to do with the chest, with how his brother
took the train, or with _where_ he took it. Really, Betty, what do you
suspect Cap'n Amazon has done?"
"I don't know what he's done," snapped Betty. "But I wouldn't put
nothin' past him, from his looks. The old pirate!"
"You will make me feel very bad if you continue to talk this way about
my Uncle Amazon," said the girl, far from feeling amused now. "It is
not right. I hope you will not continue to repeat such things. If you
do you will some time be sorry for it, Betty."
"Humph!" sniffed the woman. "Mebbe I will. But I'm warnin' you, Miss
Grayling."
"Warning me of what?"
"Of that man. That old sinner! I never see a wickeder looking feller
in my life--and I've sailed with my father and my husband to 'most
ev'ry quarter of the globe.
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