If they want me enough to travel way over to
'Bije's they'll come back here to-morrow, I shouldn't wonder. I
guess likely they'd have to; 'Bije don't know anything about me."
He rubbed his chin and then added:
"Maybe 'twould be a good notion to lock that kitchen door."
They were standing at the edge of the bluff. He sauntered over to
the kitchen, closed the door, and then, opening the window beside
it, reached in through that window and turned the key in the lock
of the door. Leaving the key in that lock and the window still
open, he came sauntering back again.
"There," he drawled, "I guess everything's safe enough now."
Mrs. Armstrong regarded him in amused wonder. "Do you usually lock
your door on the inside in that way?" she asked.
"Eh? . . . Oh, yes'm. If I locked it on the outside I'd have to
take the key with me, and I'm such an absent-minded dumb-head, I'd
be pretty sure to lose it. Come on, Babbie. All aboard!"
CHAPTER IX
The "Araminta," which was the name of Captain Perez's power dory--a
name, so the captain invariably explained, "wished onto her" before
he bought her--chugged along steadily if not swiftly. The course
was always in protected water, inside the outer beaches or through
the narrow channels between the sand islands, and so there were no
waves to contend with and no danger.
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