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E head." "Oh! you mean his life was so confined here?" Cap'n Amazon
nodded, "I wonder he bore it so long." "I am afraid Uncle Abram is
getting all he wants of adventure now," Louise said doubtfully. Cap'n
Amazon stared at her unwinkingly for a minute. Then all he said was: "I
wonder?" CHAPTER XXV AUNT EUPHEMIA MAKES A POINT Lawford Tapp did not
appear at the store and Louise continued to wonder about it; but she
shrank from asking Betty Gallup, who might have been able to inform her
why the young man did not come again. However, on one bright morning the
gray roadster stopped before the door and Louise, from her window, saw
that the three Tapp girls were in the car. She thought they had come to
make purchases, for the store on the Shell Road was often a port of call
for the automobiles of the summer colonists. Suddenly, however, she
realized that L'Enfant Terrible was standing up in the driver's seat and
beckoning to her. "Oh, Miss Grayling!" shrilled Cecile. "May I come up?
I want to speak to you." "No," commanded Prue firmly, preparing to step
out of the car. "I will speak to Miss Grayling myself." "I don't see why
she can't come down," drawled Marian, the languid. "_I_ have a message
for her." "Why!" ejaculated the surprised Louise, "if you all wish to
see me I'd better come down, hadn't I?" and she left the window at once.
She had remarked on the few occasions during the last few days that she
had met the Tapp sisters on the beach, that they had seemed desirous of
being polite to her--very different from their original attitude; but so
greatly taken up had Louise's mind been with more important matters that
she had really considered this change but little. Therefore it was with
some curiosity that she descended the stairs and went around by the yard
gate to the side of the automobile. "Dear Miss Grayling," drawled
Marian, putting out a gloved hand. "Pardon the informality. But mother
wants to know if you will help us pour tea at our lawn fete and dance
Friday week? It would be s