CHAPTER X.
CABOT ACQUIRES A LOBSTER FACTORY.
The Baldwins were greatly pleased at Cabot's decision to wait over a train; for, as Mrs.Baldwin said, a desirable guest in that out-of-the-way corner of the world was the greatest of luxuries.

White was glad to prolong the friendship so strangely begun, and also to escape a present necessity for leaving his work to carry Cabot to the distant railway station, while Cola was delighted to have found what she termed a geologic companion.

After it was arranged that these two should set forth early the following day on a search for specimens, Cabot strolled down to the factory to learn something of the process of canning lobsters.
He was amazed at the change effected in so short a time.

When he landed at Pretty Harbour the factory had been closed, silent, and deserted.

Now it was a hive of bustling activity, in which every available person of the village, including women and children, was hard at work.