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"I'lad you have come back to wait till all your troubles are settled

Thefriends are those who know and who sympathize and who

keep still! Now come with me and listen to the children and see what

the wolad because you spoke up for

them that day ent over to Hue and Cry"

After that there was no constraint between them; they kept their own

affairs hidden fros ca-schooner was in port at Maquoit,

between trips, Mayo and the girl spent co at cards under the 's red-shaded la eyes

"No, they ain't courting, either," she inforhbors

"Do you suppose I have been twicewhen I see it? It's 'Boyd this' and 'Polly that,' to be sure,

the whole continyal tied to so that has come to her since she

has been here She showed it to me, and she showed it to hione on hiirl is! Now everybody mind their own business!"

As the days passed the 's counsel seemed to apply to all the

affairs of Maquoit; folks went at their business in good earnest

The winter wind nipped, the wharf piles were sheathed with ice, and only

hardy men were abroad on the waterfront of the coast city, but the crew