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Rose Freeman gave me a package of barley sugar , and I said to myself I would take it home to Amanda . '' Captain Enos kept a watchful eye for suspicious looking craft . But his course lay well inshore , and he was apparently not noticed by any of the vessels . Before noon he was cruising along the Ipswich shore , and made his landing at Newburyport without having been spoken . `` The worst part of the business is before us , '' he said to Anne , as he made the boat fast . `` If I leave the boat here , I may come back and find no trace of her , but leave her I must , or Squire Coffin will wait in vain for the papers . '' `` But I can carry them , '' said Anne .