CAP’N WARREN’S
WARDS

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By Joseph C. Lincoln

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Author of “The Depot Master,” “The Woman Haters,”
“The Postmaster,” “Cap’n Erie,”
“Mr. Pratt,” etc.

With Illustrations

By EDMUND FREDERICK

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A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers      New York

Copyright, 1911, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Published October, 1911

Printed in the United States of America

“Captain Warren has risen from his chair and was facing her.” [Page 48.]

CONTENTS

CAP’N WARREN’S WARDS

CHAPTER I

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Ostable!” screamed the brakeman,opening the car door and yelling his loudest, so as to be heard above the rattle of the train and the shriek of the wind; “Ostable!”

The brakeman’s cap was soaked through, his hair was plastered down on his forehead, and, in the yellow light from the car lamps, his wet nose glistened as if varnished. Over his shoulders the shiny ropes of rain whipped and lashed across the space between the cars. The windows streamed as each succeeding gust flung its miniature freshet against them.

The passengers in the car—there were but four of them—did not seem greatly interested in the brakeman’s announcement. The red-faced person in the seat nearest the rear slept soundly, as he had done for the last hour and a half. He had boarded the train at Brockton, and, after requesting the conductor not to “lemme me git by Bayport, Bill,” at first favored his fellow travelers with a song and then sank into slumber.

The two elderly men sitting together on the right-hand side of the car droned on in their apparently endless Jeremiad concerning the low price of cranberries, the scarcity of scallops on the flats, the reasons why the fish weirs were a failure nowadays, and similar cheerful topics. And in