I had that
honor and privilege once. May I have it again?"
"Thank you, Mr. Pearson... Now tell me about your novel. I remember
it all so well. And I am very much interested. You must have it nearly
completed. Tell me about it, please."
They were deep in the discussion of the novel when Captain Elisha walked
into the living room. He was surprised, stating his feelings at their
mildest, to find them together, but he did not express his astonishment.
Instead, he hailed Pearson delightedly, demanded to know if they had
dared tackle Cap'n Jim without the "head doctor's" being on the scene;
and insisted upon the author's admitting him to the "clinic" forthwith.
Pearson did not take the next train, nor the next. Instead, he stayed
for dinner and well into the evening, and when he did go it was after a
prompt acceptance of the captain's invitation to "come again in a mighty
little while."
Caroline, when she and her uncle were alone after their visitor's
departure, made no protest against the invitation having been given.
She did not speak of Pearson at all. Captain Elisha also talked of other
things, principally about the sail-boat, the summer lease of which he
had arranged that afternoon. He declared the sloop to be an "able craft
of her tonnage" and that they would have some good times aboard her or
he missed his guess.
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