"When you get things all squared up, we'll talk more about it,"
continued Willie. "But 'til you do the affair ain't open an' above
board, an' I don't want nothin' to do with it. The top of the ocean is
good enough for me; I never was much on swimmin' under water."
He broke off abruptly to refill his pipe.
"Now about this motor-boat," he went on crisply, veering to a less
delicate subject. "S'pose you fix it up with Delight to keep Zenas
Henry an' the three captains away from the beach for a couple of days
so'st to give us time to get our invention securely rigged to the _Sea
Gull_. She could find somethin' for 'em to do up at the house for that
long, couldn't she?"
"I guess so."
"If she can't, Abbie can," chuckled Willie, with a grin. "Abbie
Brewster's the most famous woman in the world for settin' folks to
work. She's made Zenas Henry clean over since his marriage. Why, I
remember the time when you could no more have got him to do a day's
work than you could have lined up the fish of the sea in a
Sunday-school.
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