Who and what was this
mysterious person calling himself Cap'n Amazon Silt?
She had, too, a desire to know just how many of those weird stories he
told were filched from Cap'n Abe's accumulation of nautical literature.
When Cap'n Amazon had gained access to the chest of books Louise could
not imagine; but the fact remained that he had at least two of the
stories pat.
Louise had promised to spend the evening at the Perritons, and did so;
but she returned to Cap'n Abe's store early and did not invite her
escort in, although he was a youth eager to taste the novelty of being
intimate with "one of these old Cape Codders," as he expressed it.
"No," she told young Malcolm Standish firmly. "Uncle Amazon is not to
be made a peepshow of by the idle rich of The Beaches. Besides, from
your own name, you should be a descendant of Miles Standish, and blood
relation to these Cape Codders yourself. And Uncle Amazon and Uncle
Abram are fine old gentlemen." She said it boldly, whether she could
believe it about Cap'n Amazon or not.
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