the accuracy of Aunt Thany’s gossip. He made up his mind to sound out the skipper at the first opportunity.
For the present there was the fun of going on a journey unexpectedly. And, of course, he would spend the night with his parents.
The skies were unclouded, the wind was fair. Kit was surprised to see that more than once Skipper Barney appeared to be casting a weather eye westward as if looking for something and being astonished when he didn’t find it.
“I daresay Steve Fisher had no idea there was a special order come in by stage,” he grumbled, settling down at the tiller as the sloop nosed out of the Creek into the dancing waters of the Bay. “Otherwise he’d never have sent that message he did.”
Kit’s puzzled expression showed his ignorance of what the other was talking about.
“’Spose you don’t know to what I’m referring. Well, Steve Fisher was a-digging his potatoes last evening over to his home in Cedarville, when John Sprague druv by in his buggy, and Steve hailed him. ‘You tell ’em over to the Works, John Sprague,’ says he, ‘not to plan any suddenlike v’yage to Boston ’till I get my potatoes dug. Besides,’ says he, ‘it’s agoing to blow.’ Those were his very words, and I fancy he’d of kept his mouth shut if he’d known D. J. would be down to the Works early with a special shipment. Made me mighty short-handed in an emergency.”
Kit started curiously around the horizon. “He was certainly wrong about the weather,” he said.
“Seems so,” agreed Skipper Barney cheerfully. “Could be there’ll come a time when he’ll make a wrong guess. Never has yet though, so far as I know. Why I’ve known Steve Fisher sniff out a so’ easter three weeks afore it arrived! Got a good guesser Steve has, but he’s just too independent. Some day D. J.’ll fire him for sure.”
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