"
"That was Cap'n Abe's way, too," muttered Betty.
The cloud on Lawford Tapp's countenance did not lift immediately as he
sculled them out to the anchored sloop. Louise saw quickly that his
ill humor was for Bane.
"I must keep this young man at a distance," she thought, as she waved
her hand to Uncle Amazon and Mr. Bane. "He takes too much for granted,
I fear. Perhaps, after all, I should have excused myself from this
adventure."
She eyed Lawford covertly as, with swelling muscles and lithe, swinging
body, he drove his sculling oar. "But he does look more 'to the manner
born'--much more the man, in fact--than that actor!"
Lawford could not for long forget his duty as host, and he was as
cheerful and obliging as usual by the time the three had scrambled
aboard the _Merry Andrew_.
Immediately Betty Gallup cast aside her skirt and stood forth
untrammeled in the overalls. "Gimme my way and I'd wear 'em doin'
housework and makin' my garding," she declared. "Land sakes! I allus
did despise women's fooleries.
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