"Have you decided yet, John?" he asked.
His friend looked at him.
"Meaning--what?" he queried.
"Meanin'--you know what I mean well enough. Have you decided to take
your cousin's offer?"
"I've done more than that, Captain. I have accepted the offer and the
retaining fee, too."
Captain Obed sprang forward and held out his hand.
"Bully for you, John!" he shouted. "That's the best thing you ever done
in your life. NOW you've really started."
Kendrick smiled. "Yes," he admitted, "I have started. Where I may finish
is another matter."
"Oh, you'll finish all right. Don't be a Jeremiah, John. Well, well!
This is fine. Won't all hands be pleased!"
"Yes, won't they! Especially Brother Daniels. Daniels will be overcome
with joy. Captain, have a cigar. Have two cigars. I have begun to spend
my retainer already, you see."
CHAPTER IX
The August days were busy ones at the High Cliff House. Every room was
filled and the tables in the dining-room well crowded. Thankful told
Captain Bangs that she could not spare time even to look out of the
window. "And yet Emily and I are about the only ones who don't look
out," she added. "There's enough goin' on to look at, that's sartin."
There was indeed. Mr. E. Holliday Kendrick having taken possession of
his new estate, immediately set about the improving and enlarging which
Mr. Daniels had quoted him as contemplating. Carpenters, painters and
gardeners were at work daily. The Kendrick motor cars and the Kendrick
servants were much in evidence along East Wellmouth's main road.
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