"Never set eyes on her in my life."

"Then--then--You heard Heman say he wanted the other one. What made you
do it?"

Captain Cy grinned.

"Ase," he said, "I've always been a great hand for tryin' experiments.
Had one of my cooks aboard put raisins in the flapjacks once, just to
see what they tasted like. I judged Heman had had his own way in this
town for thirty odd year. I kind of wanted to see what would happen if
he didn't have it."



CHAPTER IV

BAILEY BANGS'S EXPERIMENT


Lemuel Myrick's painting jobs have the quality so prized by our village
small boys in the species of candy called "jaw breakers," namely, that
of "lasting long." But even Lem must finish sometime or other and, late
in July, the Cy Whittaker place was ready for occupancy. The pictures
were in their places on the walls, the old-fashioned furniture filled
the rooms, there was even a pile of old magazines, back numbers of
Godey's Lady's Book, on the shelf in the sitting room closet.

Then, when Captain Cy had notified Mrs. Bangs that the perfect boarding
house would shelter him no longer than the coming week, a new problem