"This," the master mariner said, with a wide sweep of his arm taking in
the cluttered store. "This was Abe's Sargasso Sea--and it come nigh to
smotherin' him and bearin' him down by the head."
"Oh! you mean his life was so confined here?"
Cap'n Amazon nodded, "I wonder he bore it so long."
"I am afraid Uncle Abram is getting all he wants of adventure now,"
Louise said doubtfully.
Cap'n Amazon stared at her unwinkingly for a minute. Then all he said
was:
"I wonder?"
CHAPTER XXV
AUNT EUPHEMIA MAKES A POINT
Lawford Tapp did not appear at the store and Louise continued to wonder
about it; but she shrank from asking Betty Gallup, who might have been
able to inform her why the young man did not come again. However, on
one bright morning the gray roadster stopped before the door and
Louise, from her window, saw that the three Tapp girls were in the car.
She thought they had come to make purchases, for the store on the Shell
Road was often a port of call for the automobiles of the summer
colonists.
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