He did not appear to have heard. He was absently folding the letter. Suddenly he spoke, but to himself more than to her. “I wonder who the young shaver looks like,” he muttered. It was very little, but it was enough. Reliance was satisfied. She could await Esther’s homecoming with a light heart. THE END _STORIES BY JOSEPH C. LINCOLN_ =QUEER JUDSON=--Carey Judson, a square peg in a round hole, returns from Boston to Cape Cod and at length finds happiness and contentment. =RUGGED WATER=--Old Cape Cod days with Calvin Homer rising to the position of Captain of the lifesaving station. =DOCTOR NYE=--North Ostable revises its opinion of its black sheep. =FAIR HARBOR=--An old sea captain becomes manager of a home for Mariners’ Women. =GALUSHA THE MAGNIFICENT=--A lovable archeologist brings great results to a Cape Cod village. =THE PORTYGEE=--The temperament and “calf love” of the son of a Spanish opera singer make difficulties with his Yankee grandfather. =SHAVINGS=--The loyalty and shrewdness of a quaint windmill-maker bring happiness to his friends. =MARY-’GUSTA=--An orphan girl persists in mothering two old sea captains--her guardians. =EXTRICATING OBADIAH=--Cap’n Noah Newcomb extricates his former cabin boy from the dangers involved in unexpectedly inheriting a fortune. =THANKFUL’S INHERITANCE=--Thankful Barnes and her helper lose their boarders when the house proves “ha’nted,” but they gain a sea captain and a young lawyer--for life. =KENT KNOWLES: QUAHAUG=--A search for a distant cousin, “Frank,” who proves to be “Frances,” radically alters a man who resembles the quahaug. =CAP’N DAN’S DAUGHTER=--She rescues him from her mother’s social ambitions by burlesquing the good lady’s own doings. =MR. PRATT’S PATIENTS=--Mr. Pratt and his friend Miss Sparrow introduce original methods in the Sea Breeze Bluff Sanitorium for Rest and Right Living. =THE RISE OF ROSCOE PAINE=--A New Yorker and his daughter seek simple living on Cape Cod, and find adventure and romance. =THE POSTMASTER=--A retired sea captain finds plenty of activity in the position of postmaster. =CAP’N WARREN’S WARDS=--Cap’n Warren finds himself in strange waters as guardian to a niece and nephew brought up in snobbish New York society. =THE WOMAN-HATERS=--Two avowed woman-haters clear up misunderstandings that have made them so. =THE DEPOT MASTER=--The depot master, who sees all that goes on, becomes involved in tangled love affairs. =KEZIAH COFFIN=--An old maid proves a good angel to a minister in his courtship and turns out not incurably an old maid. =CY WHITTAKER’S PLACE=--An old bachelor adopts a little girl and with an old crony forms a “Board of Strategy” for her upbringing. =THE “OLD HOME HOUSE”=--Eleven stories about two sea captains and their “Old Home House” for summer boarders.