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The yard door swung noisily on its hinges, and a light step and voice became audible, and the sound of familiar conference with the dockman. Rainham lifted his head inquiringly, and Oswyn, shrugging his shoulders, left the window and regained his seat, picking up his sketch on the way. "Yes," he said in answer to a more direct inquiry on the other's part, "I think it was Lightmark."
Apparently the tower operator phoned immediately, because as Rick taxied toward the dock, Zircon saw his friend waiting. Following the instructions of a dockman, Rick beached the Sky Wagon and cut the engine. Two husky Virgin Islanders hauled the ship higher onto the beach, and the Spindrifters climbed out. Dr. Ernst was a small, bespectacled man with a shock of unruly white hair.
And so the colonel went fishing, and his thoughts were rather more on the telephone talk he had overheard than on his rod and line. Contrary to the poor luck that had held all week, so the dockman said, the colonel's good luck was exceptional. Shag had a goodly string of snappers of large size to carry back with him. "How'd you do it?" asked the boatman, as he made fast the skiff.
You are to answer quickly, sending your note by courier to the Indian dockman at Elizabethport, addressed Robin Adair, Box 40, St. Hiliere, Canada. And the love of all to all. Adieu. "Your loving "LOUISON. "P.S. Can you tell me, is the captain of noble birth? I have never had any doubt of it, he is so splendid." It filled me with a great happiness and a bitter pang.
I told the dockman at our moorings to keep all fast for a minute. The gangway was down already; but he made nothing of it. Up he jumps, one leap, swings his long legs over the rail, and there he is on board. They pass up his swell dunnage, and he puts his hand in his trousers pocket and throws all his small change on the wharf for them chaps to pick up.
"It was a young lady come after someone, who, she said, had been here lately: a Mr. Dighton or Crichton was the name, I think. It was the dockman she asked." "Nobody comes here of that name that I know of," said Lightmark. "Not to my knowledge," said Bullen. "Curious!" remarked Lightmark gravely. "Very, sir!" said Bullen, with equal gravity.
The dockman stood, one disconsolate figure in the general blankness, with his high boots and oilskins, smoking a short clay pipe by the door of the engine-room; and further out, under the dripping dome of an umbrella, sat Oswyn in a great pea-jacket, smoking, painting the mist, the rain, the white river with its few blurred barges and its background of dreary warehouses, in a supreme disregard of the dank discomfort of his surroundings.
There was something of the riverside about him; he might be a dockman, or even a bargeman. He looked intelligent, however, and bore himself with much modesty. 'Now do endeavour to write in shorter sentences, said Biffen, who sat down by him and resumed the lesson, Reardon having taken up a volume.