"
"Oh, dear! Now I have offended him again!" sobbed the matron.
"You are too utterly selfish for words!" declared Marian.
"You're a regular _pig_!" added Prue.
"If you get mixed up with an actress, Fordy, I'll have a fine time when
I come out, won't I?" complained Cecile.
"Caesar's ghost!" burst from the lips of the badgered young man. "I
wish Betty Gallup had let me drown instead of hauling me inboard this
afternoon!"
CHAPTER XVIII
SOMETHING BREAKS
An express wagon, between the shafts of which was a raw-boned gray
horse leaning against one shaft as a prop while he dozed, stood before
Cap'n Abe's store as Louise and Mr. Judson Bane came up from the shore
front. She thanked the actor as he set the heavy baskets on the porch
step.
"Those blackfish look so good I long for a fish supper," he said,
smiling in open admiration upon her.
Louise was quick to establish a reputation for hospitality. Perhaps it
was the Silt blood that influenced her to say: "Wait till I speak to
Uncle Amazon, Mr.
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