He seemed to possess an almost uncanny
knowledge of what had happened during the summer. Besides, he seemed
to have achieved Cap'n Amazon's manner of "looking down" a too
inquisitive inquirer into personal affairs and refusing to answer.
Because of this, perhaps, nobody was ever known to ask the storekeeper
why he had filled his sea chest with bricks and useless dunnage when he
shipped it to Boston. That mystery was never explained.
Before Louise and her father were ready to leave Cardhaven most of the
summer residents along The Beaches, including Aunt Euphemia, had gone.
And the moving picture company had also flown.
With the latter went Gusty Durgin, bravely refusing to have her
artistic soul trammeled any longer by the claims of hungry boarders at
the Cardhaven Inn.
"I don't never expect to be one of these stars on the screen," she
confided to Louise. "But I can make a good livin', an' ma's childern
by her second husband, Mr. Vleet, has got to be eddicated.
"I'm goin' to make me up a fancy name and make a repertation.
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