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SYNOPSIS ( Continued )
Back on Cape Cod, Mary 'Gusta becomes more and more necessary to the comfort and happiness of the two old Captains who actually idolize her. Everyone in South Harniss believes her to be an heiress, and the crafty old men take care to undeceive no one. Only one thing ever mars Mary ' Gusta' s happiness, and that is on one occasion when she enters the forbidden "best parlor" and finding there a photograph of Ed Farmer, asks the Captains about it, reducing them both to voiceless rage. The incident is closed without further discourse, except that the face in the photograph makes a deep impression on the girl, and she remembers it later.
Years pass, Crawford Smith has grown up and is now ready for college. Despite his father's objections, he chooses Harvard, and it is while there that he is invited to visit the summer home of a classmate at South Harniss. Remembering the name vaguely, he accepts. It is there he first sees and falls in love with Mary 'Gusta, now a very sweet lovable girl, if somewhat tyrannic in her dealings with the old Captains, who almost worship her.
Seeing Mary ' Gusta' s success among these cultivated and wealthy young people, the old Captains decided that she should have a better education, and, although they know they can ill afford it, plan to send her to an expensive "finishing" school. Mary 'Gusta, thinking she will pay for all this from her own fortune, joyously consents, and arrangements are completed at once.
On the eve of her departure, however, Mary 'Gusta learns, quite accidentally, that her fortune has been only a myth and that her uncles, as now she calls them, are making a tremendous sacrifice for her, as their business is about to fail, owing to younger competition and changed conditions.
Hurrying back to them, she puts away the expensive clothes she had prepared for boarding school, and takes hold at their store, to get them out of the financial difficulties that were promising to swamp them. Securing longer credit, she manages to fight off the disaster, and before many months has the store wearing a new air of prosperity and back on its feet.
In the midst of her struggle comes the realization that her growing love for young Crawford Smith can never be realized, as he is the son of the man who so grossly injured her "uncles." Crawford sends her a photograph of his father, which she recognizes as the same as the picture she had seen in the forbidden "best parlor" long ago.
After the death of Ed Farmer, some time later, the Old Captains realize that the happiness of these young people should not be spoiled and a quiet little wedding occurs at South Harniss.
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