"The schooner is not likely to break up before morning. The departure
of her crew to-night will make it all the easier for Mr. Abram Silt's
secret to be kept," the professor reminded her.
"Yes. We will keep his secret," sighed Louise. "Poor Uncle Abram!
After all, he can gain a reputation for courage only vicariously. It
will be Cap'n Amazon Silt who will go down in the annals of Cardhaven
as the brave man who risked his life for another, daddy-prof."
Aunt Euphemia did not leave The Beaches on this evening, as she had
intended. Even she was shaken out of her usual marble demeanor by the
wreck and the incidents connected with it. She came to the store after
dinner and welcomed her brother with a most subdued and chastened
spirit.
"You have been mercifully preserved, Ernest," she said, wiping her
eyes. "I saw young Lawford Tapp bring you ashore. A really remarkable
young man, and so I told Mrs. Perriton just now. So brave of him to
venture out in the lifeboat as a volunteer.
"I have just been talking to his father.
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