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Sears Kendrick's prophecy that Bayport would, within the next day or two, talk about him even more than it had before was a true one. As soon as it became known that he had left the Macomber home and was boarding and lodging with Judah Cahoon in the rear portion of the General Minot house every tongue in the village -- tongues of animals and small children excepted -- wagged his name. At the sewing-circle, at the Shakespeare Reading Society -- convening that week at Mrs. Tabitha Crosby's -- after Friday night prayer-meeting at the Orthodox meeting-house, in Eliphalet Bassett's store at mail times, in the sitting-rooms and kitchens and around breakfast, dinner and supper tables from West Bayport to East Bayport Neck and from Poverty Lane to Woodchuck's Misery -- the principal topic was Captain Kendrick's surprising move.
"Why? " that was the question.