"Why, about my Uncle Amazon."
"How d'ye _know_ he's your uncle at all?" demanded Betty. "You never
seen him before he come here. You never knowed nothin' 'bout him, so
you said, 'fore you come here to Cardhaven."
"But, Betty----"
"Ain't no 'buts' about it!" fiercely declared the "able seaman."
"Cap'n Abe's gone--disappeared. We don't know what's become of him.
Course, Huldy Baker was a silly to think Cap'n Abe had been murdered
and cut up like shark bait and shipped away in that old chest."
"Oh!"
"Yes. 'Cause Perry seen Cap'n Abe himself that night when he took the
chest away. That was ridic'lous. But then, Huldy Baker ain't got
right good sense, nor never had.
"But it stands to reason Cap'n Abe had no intent of shipping aboard any
craft with sich dunnage in his chest as they say was in it."
"No-o. I suppose that is so," admitted Louise.
"Then, what's become of the poor man?" Betty ejaculated.
"Why, nobody seems to know. Not even Uncle Amazon."
"Have you axed him?" demanded the other bluntly.
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