The Skipper and the Skipped

A whip cracks over Cap’n Aaron Sproul’s head as a runaway-looking horse and wagon thunder past his toll-house. The old sea captain promptly enters the driver in his ledger as “Old Hurrycain,” owing ten cents in toll and three dollars in fines.

Retired from the sea by rheumatism, Sproul has taken his late uncle’s post at a covered bridge, where the traffic is local, the tolls are small, and the people are not nearly so easy to manage as a ship’s crew. He means to run the place shipshape—and to settle the score with the mysterious “Kun’l,” the one man Uncle Jerry warned him not to challenge. But a skipper who has faced every kind of sailor may find that shore life has its own storms. Who, exactly, is Old Hurrycain—and can Sproul collect what he owes?

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