The taxes were due in March and it was now May.

Mr.Tidditt wrote again; then he laid the case before the board of selectmen, and Captain Eben Salters, chairman of that august body, also wrote.

But even Captain Eben's authoritative demand was ignored.

Next to the harbor appropriation, the question of what should be done about the "Cy Whittaker place" filled Bayport's thoughts that spring.

No one, however, had supposed that the Honorable Heman might wish to buy it.