Tobias o' the Light: A Story of Cape CodCooper, James A.
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Tobias o' the Light: A Story of Cape Cod
Cooper, James A.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Fiction
"You was born looking for trouble," his sister declared. "For love’s
sake! ain’t you satisfied? We got our money back safe. Now let it be
there——"
"To git stole again, mebbe?" he muttered.
"Better be stole than be frittered away, like you want to. You don’t
show any sense."
"Not any?" he asked slyly. "Not even when it comes to matchmakin’? Was
I afraid to step in where you said angels was scare’t to tread? Tell me
that, now!"
Miss Heppy was for the moment silenced. Tobias chuckled unctuously.
"And I killed two birds with one stone, didn’t I? Four on ’em, to be
exact. Don’t talk! If I hadn’t started that story about the Nicholets
and Endicotts going stone broke, would there ever been a double wedding
last week in the First Church of Clinkerport, with Miss Ida and the
professor getting hitched, and Ralph and Lorna follerin’ suit?
"Oh, sugar! I give it as my opinion neither wedding would have come off
if it hadn’t been for me. I’m some little—er—well! whatever it was Ralph
Endicott called me. I cal’late on lookin’ up that word in the
dictionary some day.
"Anyway," he concluded, "you got to agree, Heppy, that I’m a good
matchmaker. Those two young folks was drifting apart just as their
uncle and aunt did. And ’twas me got ’em back on the right track.
Ain’t it a fact, Heppy?"
His sister had come to the door the better to hear his
self-congratulations. She brought a big brown doughnut on the fork and
this she dropped into his hand as she smiled down upon him.
"I dunno, Tobias. Maybe you was pretty shrewd that time, take it all
around. I know Lorna is going to be dreadful happy with her man. And
Miss Ida, too. Well, I dunno. Maybe you do deserve that silver-banded
pipe," she said.
THE END.
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