Chapter 14 A CHOICE OF CHAPERONS

Washy Gallup's gossip should not have made much impression upon Louise

Grayling's mind, but it fretted her. Perhaps her recent interview with

Aunt Euphemia had rasped the girl's nerves. She left the old fisherman

with a tart speech and returned to the store.

There were customers being waited upon, so she had no opportunity to mention th