CHAPTER XXII
THE TRIALS OF CAP'N BUFFUM
The morning of the next day, the day of departure, was calm and peaceful as if tempests in the air and the sea and the souls of men were things unknown. This time, it was the calm after the storm instead of before one. But the thrills were still vivid in the minds of the three boys, and would stay with them till their last day.
They were reconciled enough to go now, for they were all bursting with eagerness to take the town by storm, and to see themselves written up with photos in The News and Herald, as Hardy had confidently predicted they would be. The hosts, too, realized that, after the momentous episodes of the last two days, any further stay might prove tame and tiresome; that it was better for the boys to leave while in the highest feather. Then they would be eager to come again sometime.
The first pleasant duty after breakfast was to
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