New Britain herald., 1921-08-19
'|Cap'n Jonah's Fortune'' By JAMES A. COOPER
 Cape Cod Folks and Their
Cape Cod Folks and Their
fContinued from Yesterdays Herald.
Adventures.

tContinued from Yesterdays Herald.) Captain Jonah Hand, aged skipper. gives up the sea and comes to the l home of his niece. who is wife of Or rln Peety. at Cardhaven. fishing village, to spend his declining years While not entirely welcome at tho Petty home, he is kept in ignorance l of this fact because he apparently has not long to live and Mrs. Petty is his 1 only living heir. He is supposed to have considerable n~ney saved. His first day at the Petty home he overhears conversation between Pearl Holden, better known az "PearIy,' who was bound over to Or rim Petty by the se1ectman when her folks died and left her a charge on the town, and Aom Petty, his neices son.
 Tom confesses to Pearly that he had gambled on the old three shell and pea game at the cattle shoy in a nearby town and mad lost not only his own money, but also nearly s25 | belonging to the Ladies' Aid, of which | he was supposed to buy a chapel
 lamp. Pearly offers to lend him the money out of her savings. She has an equal sum earned by picking ber- ries
 'tCap'n Jonah" gets up early and gives Tom a $20 bill, thereby reliev- 1 ing Tom of his troubles. Joseph 1 Helmsfo-d secures lodging at Mrs. Petty's after the closing of the Inn. l For reasons, known to himself, "Cap'n 1 Jonah wants to be known as veal
 thy man. so he and Cap'n Abe agree
 on plan.
 l "Pearly'' is delighted with the
 books which Helmsford brings to his 1 room, and are the one bright spot in | ''Pear1y's'' existence as a maid of all work
 | A mysterious iron box is delivered to the Petty home consigned to Cap tain Jonah. This, naturally, gives
 rise to the impression that Captain Jonah S fortune is confined to the l strong box
 l The Petty's treat Pearly so badly l that Captain Jonah begins to threaten l to take a hand. Pearly is walking a 1 country road with Joe Helmsford, a 1 border at the Petty home one day when she is confronted by Tom Petty ] who insolently orders her to the 1 house. A quarrel between the two
 men leads to blows, during which ] Petty comes out second best. ] The youth went down upon the 1 frozen ground like a felled OK. He was dazed by the collision of the
 back of his head with the hard earth. [ Helmford stepped over him and led l Pearl away with a firm hand under
 her elbow. She was sobbing. l The young man felt that there was 1 nothing he could say. So they l reached the house without a word
 being spoken between them. Tom had | picked himself up and was following l at a distance Pearl ran up to her | room.
 Helmford waited in the kitchen
 with Sarah and Orrin until Tom came
 in. He had something to say, and there was snap to it.
 This son of yours,' he concluded
 particularly addressing Sarah Petty
 lis impossible. You abetted him or
 a previous occasion when you rudely entered my room and spoke as yol
 did to a guest of mine. Now thi
 fellow accuses me of a most vulga interest in Miss Pearl. These out breaks, I can plainly see, will occu with more frequency if I remain. Yol are paid to the end of the week, Mrs Petty. I will go tomorrow morning.
 He waited for no argument, bu
 went up to his room. Before brea k
 fast he was gone, and that afternoon
 Perry Baker stopped for his trun1 = and boxes.
 He's got board with the Widde Weth'rel and her darters t'other sid
 of Cardhaven," said the gossipy Perry