Axthor of
Capn Eri, Etc.
Mustratiomns by
Ellsworth Youn
ng
Copyright, 1999
SYNOPSIS.
*‘offin, supposed widow,
from Trumet to Bos
ton, following the death of her brother,
for whom she had kept house. Kyan
Pepper, widower, offe 33 marriage, and is
Indignantly re fused. ‘apt E Ikanah Dan-
tels, leader of the Re a hurch,
Keziah a place as housekeeper or
pew minister, and she de to rem
in Trumet. Kesgiah takes he rae of Re
John Ell the new minister, and gives
him advice as to his uct toward
members of the parish. e auses
Bens: ati mn by attending a Hm
meeting cllery’s presence is bitte
sented by Eben Hammond, leader
meeting Grace apolo
uardian
; e8CK
he rain. Capt Hamm
son, becomes a i
packet into port
storm. Elle find
ter to some
sponse to
startled wi
Nat. Nat
ops that they h n
outh. Danlels remonstr ates
as attend “Come-outer’
lery is caught by the
by Nat They bec
meets Grace while
and learns that
Bunday. The
Bundays with
captain's dau
make an
tices with
every
watch
Mrs. Keziah (
arranging to move
ery,
ry
one,
arrival of
devel-
the
and it
confesses
she fears
kar ah Dan
KS
to marry
to sea |
of her
a
board
fering
crew
abando
helps nurse hi
ne
CHAPTER XVIiil—~—{(Continued.)
“Here " sho
Simmons
time, too
Sure
the distance,
wind, and
ing wheels
prepared fo
descended from the carfage anc
in to
post office platform
\ '
sie comes ted
enough!
the front
stately
The stage, its four horses at a trot,
swung to platform
“Hurrah!” shouted the committee,
its uninvited guests and accom
panying crowd of Bayport men
boys which had gathered to assist In
the welcome. “Hurrah!”
A passenger or two peered from the
coach window. The stage driver
ironically touched his cap.
“Thank ye,” said
very much.”
ur the i
p the
the
and
he
proval,
“We are cheering
Hammond of Trumet,” he
haughtily “We are here to
and escort him home. Where is he?
Where's Cap'n Hammond?”
“Well, now, I'll tell ye:
where he is.”
“You don't? Isn't he with you?”
“No, he ain't. And he didn’t come
on the train, nuther., He was on fit
as fur as Cohasset Narrows.
of him. Oh, that's so!
nail bag, Ezry.”
Captaln Zeb stepped beside
stage and put one foot on the wheel
That,” he whispered. “is that
all you know? Where did he go to?”
Here's the
lower. “Well,” he whispered, “I did
hear this much. A chap I know was
on the train and he said he see Cap'n
Nat get
Narrows depot and there was a wom:
an with him.”
“A woman?
an?”
“Blessed If 1 knew! And he didn't
nuther. So long! Git dap!”
The reception committee and (ta
escort drove slowly back to Trumel.
The Daniels following was disgusted
and disappointed.
Trumet spent that evening wonder
ing what bad become of Nat Ham-
mond. Captain Zeb Mayo wondered
most of all, Yet his wonderment was
accompanied by vague suspicions of
the truth. And, at eleven o'clock,
A woman? What wom
he knocked and
There
overhead was opened.
it?” asked a
A window
“Who is
volce.
‘Don’t frightened,
plied the man at the door.
I've come home again.”
be Gracie,”
re
CHAPTER XIX.
the Minister Rec
Letter.
Uneasy, hy
better,
he was permitted
each day, But
turbed and excited,
which the doctor sald
in Which eives a
sically
much
to
Ellery
very
that
while
it
condition
John wa
much 80
better
up a
ile was
the
not be in
he must ir
had gone
could not
Mrs. Higgins,
shanty
and
left him
why
and
understand
away
Ike's mot! was at
the
and she did
oothe and
1 soul and capabl
she could not
satisfactorily,
He rose
way, but
answer
the chair and
He “w
would
irom
toward the living room
be put off again. He
swered His band was
the door
opened
on
face was actually
i t his hand,
and shook it.
Good morning,
‘it's a glo
Hey?
dlery’
and (
talking with Mrs
Aaptain
Higgins
nd bubbling 3
, id!" laimed
fine Now
ninister, »
The iat
“It's
we'll
splens
too
won't we?
turned to Cs
ou, Nat,”
le and self.
ody'll gay so. Of
be much satis
knew
Nat
she
stain
ptain
hard for 3
1 3
noo
Vo
you
man
to glve her up
at the doctor
you
awful noble of
Ti looked
The captain
uletly
my nobility
Mra. Higgins”
nd laughed q
“Don't let
you r mind,
I'd made up mj
| this
That
weigh
he
on
said
Is, If Gracle was willln’
well, |
“You did? You
talk! [I never heard
born days.”
“Oh, well, I- What fs it
She was standing in
and beckoning to him
the breeze was tossing
her forehead, and she
made a that even the prac
tical, unromantic doctor appreciated
The captain went to meet her.
“What ia it?” he asked
“Nat,” she whispered, “will
come in? He wants to see you."
John Ellery was still seated In the
the window, but he no
looked lke an invalid,
worry or care In his
now, merely a wondrous
serene happiness,
He held out his bands and the cap
tain shook them heartily.
“Mr. Ellery,” he sald, “as they used
lo say at the circus, ‘Here we are
again.’ And you and | have been do
Ing all kinds of circus acrobatics since
I'm glad you're
pretty nigh out of the sick bay-—and
the doctor says you are.”
“Captain,” began Ellery
interrupted him,
“Hold on!” he sald. “Belay right
there If you and I are to cruise in
did? Why,
Grace?”
hair about
picture
oT
der
countenance
Joy and
Hammond
and buggy moved down
and stoped before the Hammond
gate A war o'ighted from the buggy
are silly up to the side
hear ls likely to happen--1 cal'late
we'll heave overboard the cap'ns and
Misters. My name's ‘Nathaniel’
‘Nat’ for short.”
‘John.'
can
is
how
“All right. And mine
Captain--Nat, 1 mean-—
ever thank you?
“Thank me? What do you want
thank me for? I only handed
somethin’ that wasn't mine in the first
place and belonged to you all along
I didn't know (it, that was the only
trouble.”
“But your promise
1 fea] —"
“You needn't,
thing and 1 know
me, neither, I
not to marry Gr
was set or
led to deat
have as
She'll tell
he's gone.”
“Yes, 1 told her I
with you alone, for a
Grace tells me that
’"
gs
over
to your father
the
don’t
my
of
ago
I'm doin’
it. And
made up
ace--unless,
1 {t—months
h to k
good a
you 80
pity
course
she
tick
to
she's
mi as
Grace!
now goin’
mn you
Hello!
wanted to
few minutes
Aunt Keziah
She met me at the Co-
depot. 1 was settin
lookin’ out of the
at the sand and sniffin’
“She was
the Cape alr,
I looked up and ‘twas her. I was sur-
to see her, I you
at the
sald a word,
gave me a
‘don't talk now. Cx
starts
tell
Way there
couldn't have
and she never
Nat,” she says,
with me, quick afore the train
I've come here on purpose to
you. I must talk with you; it's im-
portant You can go to Trumet on
next train, tonight But now 1
talk with you. I must Won't
1 please Nat?
“Well, I The engine bell
beginnin’ to ring and
lively, I tell you. I swung
step Jus ear begun
' room
the
up
anyvy
chance
‘ay,
ust
come,
was
had to move
her off the
to m
wea went
went
we
aa the ove
and
And
Seems
So into the
gotten
th
aen,
moon
man to dri her
Ve
hired another team
1 to Sandwich. Stay-
ook the morn
Trumet
me
BAW
he'd Pe
“Nat, I want to tel
al ething that
knows (Grace
Neith ar
hetter
one 41}
doesn't know
Keziah
ew [ told
afraid
ah
hroke
orning Aunt ezl
parsonage and
She did
ueh n thing, ki
+
10
me
stay.”
“Did
“Yes
duty to
whimperad
her
hev?
She showed
face the
about
awn
John,” She Said,
Back to You"
“I've Come
learned what trouble
pluck was, too, She
her marriage and-—excuse me for
speaking of what Isn't my business:
yet it Is mine, In a way-—she tuld me
about you.”
Captain Hammond did not answer
His good-natured face clouded and he
shifted in his chair.
“She told me of you, Nat, all about
you—and herself. And she told me
something else, which explains why
was and what
told me about
|
she thought your marriage to Grace
would be a good thing”
“1 know. She told you that that
darn scamp Anse Coffin was alive.”
The minister started violently, He
gasped in surprise,
“You krew f(t?
stammered,
“I know It tow. Have known it for
over a year, My fOndin’ \ out was
You knew it?" he
one of the special Providences thats
along this Iagt voyage of
mate was a Hyan
One day,
was
He,
.
mine
second
ime of Cahoon
My
nis aan, n
that pesky island, when we
dinner together,
he says, ‘you're
you? 1 owned up
amed Coffin ther
too
her husband last
Glory of the Wave.” | stared at
‘Met his ghost, you mean,’ 1
‘He's been dead for years, and
a good thing, too. Fell overboard and,
not bein’ used to water, it killed him.’
“But he wouldn't have it so, ‘I used
to know Anse Coffin in New Bedford,’
says. ‘Knew hint well's I know
And when we was in port at
Havre 1 dropped In at a gin mill down
by the water front and he come up
and touched me on the arm. I thought
same a8 you, that he was dead, but
wa'n'tt He was three sheets (n
wind and a reg’lar dock rat to
at, but’ twas him sure enough.
We had a long talk. He sald he was
back to Trumet some day. Had
there, he gaid I told him,
tie, that she'd be glad to gee
He laughed and sald maybe not,
that she knew he was allve and
when hard
go not { J tell
and
eatin’ he
from
‘Know
‘ FAYS
‘Well.
ays to
Trumet,
any-
he,
Baye,
trip 1 in
atn't
}
he
I mot wis
the
SAVE
100K
joney
Ww a
he was
nted me to promi
that I'd
seen him
geen nim,
Kez! iah
1 could
been her
scm.”
her Keziah
Arrows?
Own
and
she w
ent
1 Ve
here (Good - by’
ack, wilh
I told her
and we'd
Trumet together
lay. But said
here and ease your mind
So at last |
her in a little She
up train and [ took the
Hired a team in Sand-
wich and another in Bayport and got
the tavern about eleven That's
yarn And here's your note
and
“1 was set Ha
her
she
and Grace's
agreed to,
sayin’ I'd see while
on the
‘One
the
Tha minister took yn
tore open the envelope. Within was
a tingle sheet of paper. He read a
few lines, stopped, and uttered an ex
ole
and
(TO BE CONTINU
IED )
“A Mighty Man Was Her
At a concert for charity in a country
Miss Carter obliged by reciting
“The Vilage Blacksmith.” At the
dience
cried
about
cheered. “Ancower!” they
“Ancower! Miss Carter was
to grant the request when a
very much out of breath,
tapped her on the shoulder. “I've just
come around from In froat” whis.
pered this man, excitedly. “lI want
yer to do me a favor.” Well, what
is It?" queried Miss Carter, “It's this”
whispered the intruder. “I happen ter
be the fellow you've been talkin’
about, and | want you to put In a verse
this time gaying how I let out bl
cycles”
»
Ox Made investigation.
At a recent auction sale in Echt,
Aberdeenshire, Scotland, a good deal
large ox, which the auctioneer was
trying to dispose of, took into it head
to walk into the auctioneer's box,
and, after he had cleared the office
of officials, made a minute inspection
of the books, and retired from the ros
trum evidently quite pleased with the
way the sale was being conducted and
also with the state of the books. It
is needless to say that the officials
were much more excited than the ox,
and made a quick exit, while thé ox
walked with the utmost deliberatoin.
i
AYING
Farmers Near Ringtown, Wit-
ness Orchard Demonstration
INCREASES THE APPLE CROP
Demonstrator Moore
Acres of Trees
400 Bushels
Campaign
Colliery
Alexander
od by
explosion
Ww
n exposing
hurled
burned that
ht. Both
and so badly
ly dis
Were
like
Cash-Tossing Costly Fun.
. tie LE
ere from Fer
urker, at
& small iortune,
train near Philadelphia by
Rus and his family
The parent
ok to play
to word re
Russo, a
Harrisburg, his
tarown
his
is
rding
ndo
now
were
O&e 80,
gave his baby
Oppose Church Control.
Wilkes-Barre
gregations
$44
wig
Polish church con
VY alle 0
Filvan Church
bill, were represented at the hearin
hefore the Governor in Harrisburg
Former Judges Wheaton and Jones
ex-District Attorney Salsburg ap
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in the Wyoming
are Opp gad to the
Truck Rider Breaks Record.
Altoona Squeezed into the narrow
the bed and truck of an
steel coach on a Pennavivania Rail
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i
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N.
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the way from Newark,
toona, eluding detection
phia and Harrisburg. He is the first
person to do the trick on an all-steel
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erughed to death on the first turn is a
mystery, os the space was thought to
be too amall for a little man, whereas
McDermott is six fest tall.
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