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If there was one thing certain it was that Carey had not intended to accept the Higgins' invitation to dinner. When Tobias first tendered it, up there behind the sand dune, he had not flatly refused because the refusal would mean a long argument and he always avoided argument if he could. So he neither accepted nor refused, postponing the decision until he and the captain should have reached the latter's home. And now that they had reached it he found that refusal next door to an impossibility. When he announced that he could not accept but felt that he must go on to the Cap'n Jim-Carey place, Tobias, still clinging to his coat tail, vowed that if he went he would have to "take a tow, " because he did not intend to let go his hold until he was dragged across George Judson's threshold.
-"And it's liable to be hard haulin' for you up that hill," he prophesied. "You'll have wind and tide against you, Carey, and my keel will be scrapin' sand all the way. You may fetch me in in time for to-morrow mornin's breakfast, but nothin' sooner. And we're likely to attract consider'ble attention, besides."