CHAPTER 10The Unpleasant Mr. Wiggins
DR. COBB gave Steve time off on Monday morning to report the lobster thieves to Bije Pinkham, and Bije promptly rigged up an alarm on top of his lobster car, noisy enough to fetch the Coast Guard. But nothing could have been more serenely tranquil than Harpswell Township for the next three nights. Then, on Thursday, Captain Nahum Stover’s dog raised such a rumpus at midnight that the captain got outside in time to send a charge of buckshot whistling over a skiff in the vicinity of his pound.
Linda brought the news of fresh excitement back to Juniper Point Friday noon. She had been over to Graveyard Head to paint and had talked to Abby Beamish, still hard at work on Dr. Sutton’s house. The Stovers were the closest neighbors to the old Farr place, and A
