Read Lucy: Daughters of the Sea #3 Online
Authors: Kathryn Lasky
Lucy: Daughters of the Sea #3 (19 page)
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LUM WAS SITTING
at the table when he heard the knock on the door. He walked over to open it.
My goodness
, he thought.
The spittin’ image of May.
But who was this little girl with her? Looked as if she was one of the summer people’s kids all decked out in her little sailor dress and fancy kid-leather boots. Little straw hat with a ribbon band perched on her head pert as a bird.
“Hello, miss.” He sighed.
Might as well admit it
, he thought.
No use beating around the bush.
“Been expectin’ you.”
“You have, sir?”
“Call me Gar, de-ah, for I feel as if I’m at least your uncle.”
May appeared on the staircase, her eyes red from crying. Hannah looked up at her. “He knows?”
“He knows everything.”
“Come in, de-ah.” He wrapped his long arms around her. “Been a long time coming, hasn’t it?” he whispered into her hair and patted her back. “Now who’s your young friend here?”
“I’m Henrietta Grace Hawley. And I know everything, too, and yes, Mr. Plum, it’s been a long time coming.”
Kathryn Lasky is no stranger to the sea, having crossed the Atlantic in a thirty-foot sailboat twice. Kathryn is the author of over fifty books, including the Guardians of Ga’Hoole series, which has sold more than four million copies and is now a major motion picture,
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
. Her books have received a Newbery Honor, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and a Washington Post–Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. She lives with her husband in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Copyright © 2012 by Kathryn Lasky
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