"If none of
you won't listen to me, I'll find somebody that will. I'll--"
She halted suddenly in her wild and angry speech. Her face changed
as if by magic. The flush died in it and the expression of her
sparkling eyes became subdued. A simpering look overspread Ida May
Bostwick's countenance that warned the other girl, at least, that
another person had entered the house.
Before Sheila could turn to look toward the kitchen door, Ida May
cried:
"Oh, Cousin Tunis! If you ain't my cousin exactly, I guess you are
pretty near. And ain't I glad you've come! Do you know what this
awful girl is saying--what she is doing here? And these old fools
won't believe me! I never heard of such a thing. Just you tell them
who I am, and I guess they'll make her pack up and get out in a
hurry."
In the doorway stood the captain of the _Seamew_. The two old people
welcomed his appearance with a satisfaction that could not be
mistaken.
"I swan, Tunis, you come at a mighty handy time," declared Cap'n
Ira.
"Oh, Tunis! Take that girl away," cried Prudence faintly, pointing
at Ida May.
The most difficult thing Sheila Macklin had ever done in all her
life was what she did now. To act and speak a deliberate falsehood
before Tunis Latham!
She disengaged herself from Prudence, and before the simpering Ida
May could speak again Sheila ran to him.
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