Auntie used to say I was the most peculiar child she ever saw.

P'raps that's why I came to you.

P'raps God meant for peculiar ones to live together.

Don't you think maybe that was it ?" And the captain, having no answer ready, said nothing.
That evening when Asaph and Bailey, coming for their usual call, peeped in at the window, they were astounded by the tableau in the Whittaker sitting room.

Captain Cy was seated in the rocking chair which had been his grandfather's.