She could not settle herself to
sleep. With the lamp burning brightly on the stand at the bedside and
herself propped with pillows, she opened the old scrapbook found in the
storeroom chest and fluttered its pages.
Almost immediately she came upon a story related in the Newport
_Mercury_. It was the supposedly veracious tale of an ancient sea
captain who had been a whaler in the old days.
There, almost word for word, was printed the story Cap'n Amazon had
told her that evening about the black man and the black dog!
CHAPTER XV
THE UNEXPECTED
The finding of one of Cap'n Amazon's amazing narratives of personal
prowess in the old scrapbook shocked Louise Grayling. The mystery of
the thing made alert her brain and awoke in the girl vague suspicions
that troubled her for hours. Indeed, it was long that night before she
could get to sleep.
During these days of acquaintanceship and familiarity with the old sea
captain she had learned to love him so well for his good qualities that
it was easy for her to forgive his faults.
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