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Captain Mayo strode up and down the porch and ard to the intellects and doings of rulers

"You see, I know the sort of people who live on that island, Miss

Candage I have seen other cases alongshore They are blamed for what

they don't know--and what they are led into Amateur enerosity with a lot of truck

andThe poor

devils haven't wit enough to look ahead When it cory and cold a erous than a su so straight business and no favors! He puts the screws to

'eht way I

pity the the boards of selectmen

are inood town record, they don't care "

Mayo continued to patrol the porch "I'm in a rather rebellious state of

mind just now, I reckon," he ad ! I have

a fellow-feeling for the oppressed" He laughed, but there was no

merriment in his tones "It's the little children ill suffer e," he went on "They are not to bla can be done"

"Nothing sensible, I'm afraid" He walked to and fro for many minutes

"You see, it's none of my business," he commented, when he came and sat

down beside her

"I suppose there's not one ood word for thehts

"Words wouldn't a away soe That's because I aain his e out of here in the , but I have an idea that I'll

stay over and see what happens when that gentlerand old state proceeds to scatter those folks to the four winds"