be so kind."

He smiled at that. Really, he was an awfully nice-looking youth! She
had no idea that these longshore fishermen would be so gentlemanly and so
good looking.

"Oh, you can't miss it. Take the first left-hand street, and keep on it.
Cap'n Abe's store is the only one beyond the Mariner's Chapel."

"Thank you," she said again and mounted the broad steps of the Inn. The
young fellow hesitated as though he were inclined to enter too. But when
Louise reached the piazza and glanced quickly down at him, he was moving
on.

The cool interior of a broad hall with a stairway mounting out of it and
a screened dining-room at one side, welcomed the girl. A bustling young
woman in checked gingham, which fitted her as though it were a mold for
her rather plump figure, met the visitor.

"How-do!" she said briskly. "Goin' to stop?"

"Only for dinner," Louise said, smiling--and when she smiled her gray
eyes made friends.

"Almost over. But I'll run an' tell the cook to dish you up something
hot. Come right this way an' wash. I'll fix you a table where it's
cool. This is 'bout the first hot day we've had."

She showed the visitor into the dressing-room and then bustled away.
Later she hovered about the table where Louise ate, the other boarders