Maybe you 'll have better luck . '' `` But what is it ? '' `` The mystery , '' said Mr. Bentley dramatically , `` is -- Young Si . He 's the mystery . Last spring , just when the herring struck in , a young chap suddenly appeared at the Point . He appeared -- from what corner of the globe nobody hai n't ever been able to make out . He bought a boat and a shanty down at my shore and went into a sort of mackerel partnership with Snuffy Curtis -- Snuffy supplying the experience and this young fellow the cash , I reckon . Snuffy 's as poor as Job 's turkey ; it was a windfall for him . And there he 's fished all summer . '' `` But his name -- Young Si ? '' `` Well , of course , that is n't it . He did give himself out as Brown , but nobody believes that 's his handle -- sounds unnatteral here . He bought his establishment from ` old Si , ' who used to fish down there and was a mysterious old critter in a way too . So when this young fellow stepped in from goodness knows where , some of the Pointers christened him Young Si for a joke , and he never gets anything else . Does n't seem to mind it . He 's a moody , keep-to-himself sort of chap . Yet he ai n't unpopular along shore , I believe . Snuffy was telling me they like him real well , considering his unsociableness . Anyways , he 's as handsome a chap as I ever seed , and well eddicated too . He ai n't none of your ordinary fishermen .
Some of us kind of think he 's a runaway -- got XXXXX some scrape or another , maybe , and is skulking around here to keep out of jail .
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