I depend upon you
to help me. Otherwise I shall be undone--completely undone."
"Goodness!" cried the girl, choked with laughter again. "Do you mean
to do away with Cap'n Abe? I fear you are quite as wicked as Betty
Gallup believes you to be--and Aunt Euphemia."
He grinned broadly once more. "I got Cap'n Abe's will filed away
already--if somethin' should happen," said the old intriguer.
"Everything's fixed, Niece Louise."
"I'll help you," she declared, and gave him her hand a second time.
CHAPTER XXVIII
STORM CLOUDS THREATEN
The next week Gusty Durgin made her debut as a picture actress. She
had pestered Mr. Bane morn, noon, and night at the hotel until finally
the leading man obtained Mr. Anscomb's permission to work the buxom
waitress into a picture.
"But nothin' funny, Mr. Bane," Gusty begged. "Land sakes! It's the
easiest thing in the world to get a laugh out of a fat woman fallin'
down a sand bank, or a fat man bein' busted in the face with a custard
pie. I don't want folks to laugh at my fat.
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