Her idea of
cleanliness indoors was about the same as that of a smart skipper of an
old-time clipper ship.
"If that woman ain't holystonin' the deck ev'ry day she thinks we're
wadin' in dirt, boot-laig high," growled Cap'n Amazon.
"Cleanliness is next to godliness!" quoted Louise, who was in the store
at the moment.
"Land sakes!" ejaculated the captain. "It's next door to a lot of
other things, seems like, too. I shouldn't say that Bet Gallup was
spillin' over with piety."
Louise, laughing softly, went to the door. There was a cloud of dust
up the road and ahead of it came a small automobile. Cap'n Amazon was
singing, in a rather cracked voice:
"'_The Boundin' Biller, Captain Hanks,
She was hove flat down on the Western Banks_;------"
With a saucy blast of its horn the automobile flashed past the store.
There were two young women in it, one driving. Louise felt sure they
were Miss Louder and Miss Noyes, mentioned by Gusty Durgin the day
before, and their frocks and hats were all that their names suggested.
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