"Well," inquired the Captain, as they walked down the lane, "what do
you think of it? Pretty good store for a place like South Harniss, ain't
it?"

"Yes, sir."

"I bet you! Different from the Ostable stores, eh?"

"Yes, sir; I--I guess it is."

"Um-hm. Well, how different?"

Mary-'Gusta took her usual interval for consideration.

"I guess there's more--more things in it with separate smells to 'em,"
she said.

Captain Shad had no remark to make for a moment. Mary-'Gusta, however,
was anxious to please.

"They're nice smells," she hastened to add. "I like 'em; only I never
smelled 'em all at the same time before. And I like the lozengers VERY
much."

The two or three days which Captain Shad had set as the limit of the
child's visit passed; as did the next two or three. She was busy and,
apparently, enjoying herself. She helped Isaiah with the housework, and
although he found the help not altogether unwelcome, he was inclined to
grumble a little at what he called her "pesterin' around."