Then, when she had taken time to consider it, she decided not
to do so.
It really was no business of hers whether Cap'n Abe had taken his chest
with him when he sailed from Boston or not. She had never asked Cap'n
Amazon the name of the vessel his brother was supposed to have shipped
on. Had she known it was the _Curlew_, the very schooner on which
Professor Grayling had sailed, she would, of course, have shown a much
deeper interest. And had Cap'n Amazon learned from Louise the name of
the craft her father was aboard, he surely would have mentioned the
coincidence.
It stuck in the girl's mind--the puzzle about Cap'n Abe's chest--but it
did not come to her lips. Looking across the table that evening, after
the store was closed, as they sat together under the hanging lamp, she
wondered that Cap'n Amazon did not speak of it if he knew his brother's
chest had been returned to the Paulmouth express agent.
Without being in the least grim-looking in her eyes, there was an
expression on Cap'n Amazon's face, kept scrupulously shaven, that made
one hesitate to pry into or show curiosity regarding any of his private
affairs.
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