From afar came the low persistent murmur of the ocean . * * * * * The next day Ethel Lennox declined to visit Si 's shore . Instead she went to the Point and sketched all day . She went again the next day and the next . The Point was the most picturesque part of the shore , she averred , and the `` types '' among its inhabitants most interesting . Agnes Bentley ceased to suggest another visit to Si 's shore . She had a vague perception that her companion did not care to discuss the subject . At the end of a week Mrs. Bentley remarked : `` What in the world can have happened to Young Si ? It 's a whole week since he was here for milk or butter . He ai n't sick , is he ? '' Mr. Bentley chuckled amusedly . `` I ` low I can tell you the reason of that . Si 's getting his stuff at Walden 's now . I saw him going there twice this week . ` Liza Walden 's got ahead of you at last , Mary . '' `` Well , I never did ! '' said Mrs. Bentley . `` Well , Young Si is the first that ever preferred ` Liza Walden 's butter to mine . Everyone knows what hers is like . She never works her salt half in .
Well , Young Si 's welcome to it , I 'm sure ; I wish him joy XXXXX his exchange . ''
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