The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-08-12
Continued From Yesterday
CHAPTER vi.
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And that is how they began to
live the Natural Life, which Van
called the accept -no-imitations'
kind. I say they" but 1 ought
to have said I'VE" for | was in It,
though 1 didn't mean to be.
Il can't afford to come" says
/ to Van.
You can't afford to do any
thing else" says he.
And that's about what it
amounted to- couldn't afford
to do nothing else. IL ia hung
out long enough l cal'late the
Heavenlies would have fixed me
so I'D have begun to feel twas
a crime to die rich.
"All right" says /. "ITI come.
But | hope you'll pay me in a
dark room. I'll be ashamed to
look you in the face and take
that much money"
Nate Scudder's conscience
wasn't worrying him any; you
can bet on that. l want around
when he made the deal for rent
ing 'em the island, but from what
l heard afterward, the price
would have been high If he'd been
selling ii to 'em by the pound to
scour knives with. He agreed to
get bedding for 'em and tin
things, and a pig, and crockery.
and hens, and groceries, and
boards to tinker up the barn
with, and anything else that
might come in handy. Likewise
he was to fetch and carry for 'em
between the village and the ISL
and. And Hubby Ann was to do
the washing.
ITS mighty good of Scudder
says Hartley. Hes a gem, a
rough diamond"
''Scudder," says Van. lis one
of Natures nobiemen."
Not SO Lord James.
Look acre. Pratt" says he
TO me one day. 'iow long do you
think we're going to stay ere on
this 'orrible sand 'eap?"
Forever" answers, fresh
like. / wished afterward 1 had
not been so gay in my speech.
Had I jollied him along. as Van
might say, I would have saved
myself a heap OF sweating.
That night after the Heaven
lies had finished everything on
the table except the knives and
forks and the dishes, they went
outside to smoke cigars and
promenade up and down the
beach. His Lordshfp and I sat
down to have a bite ourselves.
Say" says I, that Page girl
is a good locker. amt she? What,
made her cut loose from Martin
and take up with Van?"
"Oh, I don't know" says
James. 81 card as 'ow twas be-
cause e was too mercenary. 'E
was an awful chap in the Street
after is old man died. 'E was
there night and day. 'Ardly came
'ome at all"
The next day Martin took IL in.
his head he wanted some clam
ehowder. II was that pesky chow
der that caused Lord James to
leave us. I didn't care so much
for Hopper himself, but cookin'
and totin' was enough without to
have to help the Heavenlies dress.
James and l will dig the
CLANS" said Martin. Tell me
where to go-and what to dig
'em with, and-and how to dc
it."
I told him to take the skiff
and a clam hoe and a couple of
buckets and row across to the
mainland. There was clans all
alongshore there, / knew.
You go along till you see a
lot of little holes in the sand"
| says, then you dig. Want to
look out that they amt sand
worm holes. And when you be-
gin to Dig" I says, you want to
lay right into it, cause the clans
are likely to be srun-downs" and
they get under fast"
Well, of course, Martin did
mistake saad-werm holes for
clam holes. And. Of course. he
did insist on Isord James digging.
The upshot of It ali was that
Lord James almost had sun
stroke. When the two ~nt back