Save one thing. She desired to see Lawford Tapp and talk with him.
But Lawford did not appear at the store on the Shell Road.
Mr. Bane came frequently to call. He was an eager listener to Cap'n
Amazon's stories and evidently enjoyed the master mariner hugely.
Several of the young people from the cottages along The Beaches called
on Louise; but if the girl desired to see Aunt Euphemia she had to go
to the Perritons, or meet the Lady from Poughkeepsie in her walks along
the sands. Aunt Euphemia could not countenance Cap'n Amazon in the
smallest particular.
"It is a mystery to me, Louise--a perfect mystery--how you are able to
endure that awful creature and his coarse stories. That dreadful tale
of the albatross sticks in my mind--I cannot forget it," she
complained. "And his appearance! No more savage looking man did I
ever behold. I wonder you are not afraid to live in the same house
with him."
Louise would not acknowledge that she had ever been fearful of Cap'n
Amazon. Her own qualms of terror had almost immediately subsided.
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