He wouldn't no more
come down here, push this skiff afloat, and row out to deep water than
he'd go put his hand in a wild tiger's mouth--no, ma'am!"
"Why, isn't that very ridiculous?" Louise said, not at all pleased. "Of
course Cap'n Abe shipped on that boat just as Cap'n Amazon said he was
going to. Otherwise he would have been back--or we would have heard from
him."
"He did, hey?" responded Washy sharply, springing the surprise he had
been leading up to. "Then why didn't he take his chist with him? It's
come back to the Paulmouth depot, so Perry Baker says, it not being
claimed down to Boston."
CHAPTER XIV
A CHOICE OF CHAPERONS
Washy Gallup's gossip should not have made much impression upon Louise
Grayling's mind, but it fretted her. Perhaps her recent interview with
Aunt Euphemia had rasped the girl's nerves. She left the old fisherman
with a tart speech and returned to the store.
There were customers being waited upon, so she had no opportunity to
mention the matter of Cap'n Abe's chest to the substitute storekeeper
at once.
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