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It was noted, in following years, that several leaders of workmen built themselves houses and blocks of renting flats and took trips to the old countries, while, more immediately, other leaders and "dark horses" came to political preferment and the control of the municipal government and the municipal moneys.
April 16. We proceeded north by west to latitude 19 degrees 32 minutes, and crossed several gullies coming from the basaltic ridges: these, however, receded far from the river, and large box and Ironbark flats took their place for about three miles, when the ridges re-appeared.
After a time, she crept softly away, loosed her pony, and lashed him mercilessly with her whip through the streets of the town and out the long, dusty river trail. A man turned and looked after her as she tore past a brightly lighted store on Water Street. "That was Tannis of the Flats," he said to a companion.
"From what you saw from the opposite pavement then, it is certain that some person who was able to move about was in this room only a minute or so before you entered it?" "That is so," Anna answered. "You met no one upon the stairs, or saw no one leave the flats?" "No one," Anna answered firmly.
"Gosh! it's dark," she exclaimed. "Oh, it's none of your bachelor flats with lifts and attendants and electric lights," he replied. On the third landing she stopped out of breath again. "Tired?" he said. "There " she laid a hand on her chest and breathed heavily. Then she moved a step nearer to him. "Give us a kiss, dearie," she whispered. He retreated a step.
Scotty scratched his head. "I don't know. Unless you want to walk. We could cross the tidal flats and hike to town." Rick vetoed that. "Too far and too slow. The barber would have time to cut twenty heads of hair before we got there." "How about asking Jerry to come for us?" "You've got it! He could come down the wood road and pick us up right behind the island. He knows the way."
It was horrible to think of. I would rather have added a vice to my faults than that she should have penetrated him. Nearing the island, I was reminded of the early morning when I landed on the Flemish flats. I did not expect a similar surprise, but before my rowers had pulled in, the tall beaconhead of old Schwartz notified that his mistress might be abroad. Janet walked with her.
"Now we're imprisoned in the present," he said, "and we have to make the worst of it." In their despair he had an inspiration, which she declared worthy of him: it was to take two small flats, of four or five rooms and a bath, and live in both. They tried this in a great many places, but they never could get two flats of the kind on the same floor where there was steam heat and an elevator.
We should have come just as near getting to a church and should have saved ourselves trouble, if we had clung to our first intention and had spent that Saturday in moving on up the James. As we crossed the river on the way to Powell's Creek, a closer study of the sounding-marks on the chart showed a depth of but one half foot at several places on the flats at the mouth of the stream.
"I know enough of him, however, to be quite sure that the advice which I have given you is good." The carriage drew up in the Albert Road, within a hundred yards or so of Wrayson's own block of flats. The Baroness alighted first. "You must come in and have a whisky and soda," she said to Wrayson. "If I may," he answered, looking at Louise. The Baroness passed on.
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