Let's go
down to Higgins' and change the notes, Bet. We can get the ring there."
Bet did not object--she turned at once in the right direction, walking
so fast that Will began to chaff her.
"You take my breath away," he said. "You forget that I've got sea-
legs, and ain't a match for the land folks when they go at that pace."
"Oh, Will--if you could be in earnest!" said poor Bet. "I'm hurrying
'cause it's life or death to me. It gets late, and parson may be
out--oh! a hundred things may happen--oh, if my heart didn't beat so
hard!"
"Well, here we are, dear," said Will, and the two turned into the small
close marine store presided over by Higgins.
That worthy came forward himself to meet the handsome couple who now
stood at the other side of his grimy counter.
"Evenin'," he said. "What may I serve you with? Why, if it ain't
Scarlett! I didn't know you at first, lad, and that's a fact. Evening
young woman! Courting, eh?" he whispered in an aside to Scarlett.
"Oh, that's about done," said Will.
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