News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1911-03-22
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accept the responsibility for it at the
I meetng?"a gutaH lH' a. ..lg
Captain Cy looked up. 9ra5i
! a"Well," he said, "afore this Thomas
business happened, to knock all my
| plans on their beam ends. I'd done
considerable thfnkin' about that appro-
| priation. 1t seemed TO me- that there
must be some reason for Heman's
comm about so sudden. He was sar.
tin sure Of the thirty thousand for
| spell; then. all to once he begun to
| take In sail and go on t'other tack.
don't know much about politics, but /
know he knows all the politics there
is. And 1t seemed to me that If live
man. one with eyes in his head. went
to Washington and looked around he
| might find the reason" ,.t. at Hr4,r. ..
But you still believe that you might
help If you went to Washington?''
Yes. guess | do. Anyhow, I'd
ask so@e pretty p'inted questions.
You SCI. I amt lived here in Bay
port all my life. and ! don't swaller
all the BAIT Heman heaves overheard"
"'Then why don't you go?'
"Hey? Why don't | go? And leave
Bos'n and''- ''' 4asf'a
EMILY would be all right and per-
fectly safe. Georgianna thinks the
world of her. And. Captain Whit
taker. don't like to hear these people
talk of you as they do. don't like
to read such things in the paper-that
you were only Dragging in order to be
popular and meant to shirk when the
time came for action. | know they're
not true / knew it,"
Captain Cy was gratifed. and his
qualification showed in his voice.
THANK you, Phoebe" he said 1T
am much obliged to you. But. you
see | don't take any interest in such
things any more. When realize that
pretty soon I've got to give up that
little girl for good can't bear to be
away from her a minute hardly. 1
don't like to leave her here alone with
Georgianna and''-
II will keep an eye on her. You
trust me, don't your"
Trust you? BY the big dipper,
you're about the only one l can trust
these days. I don't know how I'd
have pulled through this if you hadn't
helped You're different from Ase and
Bailey and their kind, not meanin'
anything against them, either. But
you're broad minded and cool headed
and-and- Do you know, if I'd had
a woman like you to advise me all
these years and keep me from goin' off
the course l might have been some
body by now"
Il think you're somebody as it is"
Don't talk that way. | own up l
like to hear you, but I'm 'fraid it amt
true. You say | amount to somethin'.
Well, what? l come back home here
with some money in my pocket. think
in that was all that was necessary
to make me a good deal of a Teller
The old Cy Whitaker place, said
to myself, was gon' to be a real Cy
Whitaker place again. And I'd be a
real Whitaker. a man who should
stand for somethin', as my dad and
granddad did afore me. The town
should respect me, and I'd do things |
to help it along. And what's it all
come to? Why. every young one on
the street is told TO be good for fear |!
he'll grow up like me. Amt that so? |
Course it's so. I'm
You shall not speak so. Do you
imagine that you're not respected by !
every one whose respect counts for
anything? Yes, and by others too.
Don't you suppose Mr.. Atkins respects
you down in his heart-if he has one?
Doesn't your housekeeper. who sees
you every day. respect and like you?
And little Emily-dOesn't she love you
more than she does all the rest of us
well, | guess Bos'n does care for
the old man some. that's fact. She
says she likes you next best, though.
Did you know that?"
But Miss Dawes was indignant.
Captain Whitaker" she declared,
zone would think you were hundred
y ears GU " uedI JOu IOu dlC way
calling yourself an old man. Does Mr..
Atkins call himself old? And he is
older than you"
"Well, I'm over fifty, Phoebe" In
spite of the habit for which he had
Just been reproached, the captain
found this a difficult statement to
make.
IL know. But you're younger than
most of us at thirty-fve. You see, I'm
,onfessing, too" she added, with a
augh and little blush.
Captain Cy made a mental calcula-
ion.
Twenty years." he said musingly.
Twenty years is a long time. No;
IN ,old. And worse than that, I'm |
IN old fool, | guess. If l hadn't been
d have stayed in South America in
tead of comm here to be hooted out
# the town | was born in"
The teacher stamped her foot.
"Oh, what shall l do with your she
reclaimed. 1T is wicked for you to
ay such things. Do you suppose that