"
"But you'll give me a job?"
"I won't interfere if the superintendent of any of the factories takes
you on," growled I. Tapp. "But mind you, he'll hire you on his own
responsibility--he'll understand that from me. But I tell you right
now this is no time to apply for a job in a candy factory. We're
discharging men--not hiring them."
"I will apply for the first opening," announced the son.
I. Tapp stamped away along the graveled walk, leaving the young man
alone. Lawford's calmness was as irritating to him as sea water to a
raw wound.
CHAPTER XXIV
GRAY DAYS
Those days were dark for Louise Grayling; on her shoulders she bore
double trouble. Anxiety for her father's safety made her sufficiently
unhappy; but in addition her mind must cope with the mystery of Cap'n
Amazon's identity and Cap'n Abe's whereabouts.
For she was not at all satisfied in her heart that the storekeeper had
sailed from the port of Boston on the _Curlew_; and the status of the
piratical looking Amazon Silt was by no means decided to her
satisfaction.
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