You hear, Ase?
You tell me his name.

Now run along, will you?
I ain't safe company just now." Asaph, frightened at the effect of his words, hurriedly departed.
Captain Cy paced the room for the next fifteen minutes.

Then he opened the kitchen door.
"Bos'n," he called, "come in and set in my lap a while; don't you want to?
I'm--I'm sort of lonesome, little girl." The next afternoon, when the schoolmistress, who had been delayed by the inevitable examination papers, stopped at the Cy Whittaker place, she was met by Georgianna; Emily, who stood behind the housekeeper in the doorway, was crying.
"Cap'n Cy has gone away--to Washin'ton," declared Georgianna.

"Though what he's gone there for's more'n I know.

He said he'd send his hotel address soon's he got there.