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This had been attacked one night by Labuan pirates, who, after taking all that was valuable, set fire to the house. Mrs Langley had escaped by a back door into the woods with her old man-servant, George. She had rushed at the first alarm to Letta's bed, but the child was not there. Letta had been awake, had heard the advance of the pirate crew, and had gone into a front room to see who was coming.
The noose caught Langley over his arms, which were instantly drawn close against his body as the thong tightened, so he was thus rendered completely powerless; but Whitson sprang, quick as lightning, to one side, and escaped.
Dead or alive, I'll have him. Bring the link." And, followed by Abraham, he rushed out of the room. Just as Jack got half way down the stairs, and Wild and the Jew reached the upper landing, the street-door was opened by Langley and Ireton, the latter of whom carried a lantern. "Stop him!" shouted Jonathan from the stair-head, "stop him! It's Jack Sheppard!" "Give way!" cried Jack fiercely.
And really I am sure you will not take it in bad part if I say that I do not find you as interesting a man as my father. The discomfited adorer did not take it amiss; he smiled ruefully, and took his departure; but, to his credit be it spoken, he remained Helena's friend. The luncheon hour was an important epoch of the day in the Langley house in Prince's Gate.
It's at the back somewhere. 'Is this it Langley and Fielding's sardines? 'That's it. Martin began to read. "Langley and Fielding's sardines. When you want the daintiest, most delicious sardines, go to your grocer and say, 'Langley and Fielding's, please! You will then be sure of having the finest Norwegian smoked sardines, packed in the purest olive oil."
His own rays, with which he had doubled the solar spectrum, were altogether harmless and beneficent; but Radium denied its God or, what was to Langley the same thing, denied the truths of his Science. The force was wholly new.
Hamilton would come and explain it, and if Hamilton did not come there would be some other explanation. He began to think about quite other things he found himself thinking of the bright eyes and the friendly, frank, caressing ways of Helena Langley. The Dictator began somehow to realise the fact that he had hitherto been leading a very lonely life.
"Fro' Lancashire," he repeated in a voice as wearied as his action "fro' th' Deepton coalmines theer. You'll know th' name on 'em, I ha' no doubt. Th' same company owns 'em as owns these." "What!" said an outsider "Langley an 'em?" The boy turned himself round and nodded. "Ay," he answered "them. That was why I comn here. I comn to get work fro' fro' him."
That same day there was a luncheon party at the new town house of the Langleys, Prince's Gate. The Langleys were two in number all told, father and daughter. Sir Rupert Langley was a remarkable man, but his daughter, Helena Langley, was a much more remarkable woman.
Mrs Langley then tried to engage her in conversation, but Mrs Ali continued to stare and smile without speaking, for the good reason that she understood neither French nor English. Requesting Ali to interpret, Mrs Langley then put one or two questions. The bride turned her large dark eyes on her husband while he was speaking, and then, instead of replying, turned them on her visitors and laughed.
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