The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-01-03


''HELLO, KETURY! YOU'RE JUST AS GOOD
LOOKIN' AS EVER"
side the hotel as quick as the Almighty
would let him. Gabe fastened to obey
Mrs Bangs opened the door of the
perfect boarding house and stood ma
jestically waiting to receive the pro-
spective guest Over her shoulders
peered the faces of the boarders
"Good afternoon" began the land
lady. Il presume likely you would
like to-
She was interrupted. The newcomer
turned toward her and extended his
hand
Hello, Keturyr' he said. ST amt
seen you sence you wore your hair
up. but you're just as good lookin' as
ever. And amt that Bailey? Yes,
it's. and Asaph too. How are you.
boys? Shaker"
M. Bangs and his chum, the town
clerk, had emerged from the doorway
Their mouths and eyes were wide
open, and they seemed to be suffering
from a sort of paralysis.
"Well. what's the matter with you 2"
demanded the arrival. "Ain't too
stuck up to shake hands after all these
years, are your
man! II b'lieve you're Cy Whit
takerw
y
Miss Angelina Phinney made no less
fore bedtime it was known from the
last house in "Woodchuck lane" to the
fish shanties at West Bayport that
young Cyl Whitaker had come back
that he had come back flor good;;"
that he was staying temporarily at the
perfect boarding house; that he was
lawful well off," having made lots of
money down in South America; that
he intended to "fix over" the Whit
taker place and that it was to be fixed
over not in a modern manner. with
plush parlor sets-a la Sylvanus Ca
hoon-or with onyx tables and blue
and gold chairs like those adjoining the
Atkins mansion. 1t was to be as near
as possible a reproduction of what it
had been in the time of the late
"Cap'n Cy, young Cy's father.
81 think he's out of his head" de-
clared Miss Phinney in confidence to
each of the nine females whom she ia
vored with her callS-''not crazy, you
understand, but sort of touched in the
upper story. l says so to Matildy
Tripp-said it right out too. 'Matildy,'
says, he's got a screw loose up aloft
Just as sure as you're born womanp
What makes you think So? says she.
WELL says 1, do you s'pose anybody
that want foolish would be for spend
In good money on an old house to
make it older? I says Coin to tear
down the piazza the fust thing! Per-
fectly good piazza that cost $9S.60 to
build; l know, because I see the bill
when the Howeses had it done And
he's goin' to set out box hedges, some
thin that amt been the style in this
town sence Congressman Atkins pull
ed up his. What in the wide world,
Cap'n Whitaker says l to him. do
you want Of box hedges? Homely
and stiff and funeral lookin'! might
have 'em around my grave in the bury
In ground says, but nowheres else.'
All right. Angie says he, you shall
have 'em there. I'll cut some slips pur-
pose for you. It'll be a pleasure he
says. Now. amt that crazy talk for a
grown man?"
Miss Phinney was not the only one
in our village to question Captain Cy
Whittaker's sanity during the next
few months The majority of our PEG
pie didn't understand him at all He
was generally liked for although he
had money. he did noi put on airs. but
he had his own WAY of doing things
and they were nef Rayport ways.
True to his promise. he had a snuad
q carpenters busy ~ the day
lowing his -arrival earine dowr
loathed psazz ~ ,an,n
more were kept busy throughout that