"
Louise thought she might return the compliment with the exchange of but a
single word; but she was too respectful to do so.
"I am determined to remain here," she repeated, "so you may as well take
it cheerfully, auntie. If you intend staying with the Perritons any
length of time, of course I shall see you often, and meet them. I
haven't come down here to the Cape to play the hermit, I assure you. But
I am settled here with Cap'n Amazon, and I am comfortable. So, why
should I make any change?"
"But in this common house! With that awful looking old sailor! And the
way he talks! The rough adventures he has experienced--and the way he
relates them!"
"Why, I think he is charming. And his stories are jolly fun. He tells
the most thrilling and interesting things! I have before heard people
tell about queer corners of the world--and been in some of them myself.
Only the romance seems all squeezed out of such places nowadays. But
when Cap'n Amazon was young!" she sighed.
"You should hear him tell of having once been wrecked on an island in the
South Seas where there were only women left of the tribe inhabiting it,
the men all having been killed in battle by a neighboring tribe.
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