ine, that's all."

Supper was to be ready at six. Georgianna, assisted by Keturah Bangs,
Mrs. Sylvanus Cahoon, and other volunteers, was gloriously busy in the
kitchen. The table in the dining room reached from one end of the big
apartment to the other. Guests would begin to arrive shortly. Wily Mr.
Peabody, guessing that Captain Cy might prefer to be alone, had taken
the Board of Strategy out riding behind the span.

In the sitting room, around the baseburner stove, were three
persons--Captain Cy, Bos'n, and Phoebe. Miss Dawes had "come early," at
the captain's urgent appeal. Now she was sitting in the rocker, at
one side of the stove, gazing dreamily at the ruddy light behind the
isinglass panes. She looked quietly, blissfully contented and happy.
At her feet, on the braided mat, sat Bos'n, playing with Lonesome, who
purred lazily. The little girl was happy, too, for was not her beloved
Uncle Cyrus at home again, with all danger of their separation ended
forevermore?

As for Captain Cy himself, the radiant expression was still on his face,
brighter than ever. He looked across at Phoebe, who smiled back at him.
Then he glanced down at Bos'n. And all at once he realized that this was
the fulfillment of his dream. Here was his "picture"; the sitting room
was now as he had always loved to think of it--as it used to be. He was
in his father's chair, Phoebe in the one his mother used to occupy, and
between them--just where he had sat so often when a boy--the child. The
Cy Whittaker place had again, and at last, come into its own.

He drew a long breath, and looked about the room; at the stove, the
lamp, the old, familiar furniture, at his grandfather's portrait over
the mantel. Then, in a flash of memory, his father's words came back to
him, and he said, laughing aloud from pure happiness:

"Bos'n, run down cellar and get me a pitcher of cider, won't
you?--there's a good feller."

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