The
Lady from Poughkeepsie had remained on the Cape for the full season in
the hope of breaking up the intimacy between Louise and Lawford Tapp.
His absence, which she had believed so fortunate, soon proved to be
merely provocative of her niece's interest in the heir of the Taffy
King.
Nor could she wean Louise from association with the piratical looking
mariner at Cap'n Abe's store. The girl utterly refused to be guided by
the older woman in either of these particulars.
"You are a reckless, abandoned girl!" Aunt Euphemia declared. "I am
sure, no matter what others may say, that awful sailor is no fit
companion for you.
"And as, for Lawford Tapp----Why, his people are impossible, Louise.
Wherever you have your establishment, if you marry him, his people,
when they visit you will have to be apologized for," the indignant
woman continued.
"Let--me--see," murmured Louise. "How large an 'establishment' should
you think, auntie, we could keep up on eighteen dollars a week?"
"Eighteen dollars a week!" exclaimed Aunt Euphemia, aghast.
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