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She lands a small parcel of letters and papers, a few bales of merchandise, half a dozen slightly-formed cadaverous men; and then, putting about, a gun is fired, and she is off again. She soon disappears away upon the wide ocean; and the waves once more roll silently in their glistening surface broken only by the flapping of the albatross or the plunge of the osprey. I direct my eyes northward.
He was carefully conveyed to the boat; the Osprey was safely beached, high and dry, and loaded with stones to prevent her being buffeted by the winds again, until such time as she could be removed; and the boys, with lightened hearts, scrambled into the haaf-boat, carrying with them all their campaigning effects.
It was something to know that a clue had been obtained, and in a wonderfully short time the Osprey was under way, and heading for the point of the bay. "Then they did not stop them there, Major?" George Lechmere asked, after Frank had stated the news. "No, the mail did not arrive with the letter in time for Lloyd's agent to act upon it. The Phantom had sailed some hours before.
A few strokes of the eagle's wing brought him near; but the osprey had already heard his scream, and knowing it was no use carrying the fish to his nest, turned away from it, and rose spirally upward, in the hope of escaping in that direction. The eagle followed, beating the air with his broad pinions, as he soared after.
Harley and Senator Hanway, Richard would have them released without loss; they were to be restored, plack and bawbee, to what had been theirs on that tumultuous Wednesday when the osprey pool made its initial swoop. "Adjust the business with them June second," explained Richard. "My wife" he said "my wife" with a dignity that was visible "and I will be then on our way to the Mediterranean.
Look sharp, my hearties, work with a will, or we shall have those niggers on us again." Never was sail made on the Osprey more quickly, and by the time that the anchor was apeak all the lower sails were set. "Shall I tell the blacks to tow their boat behind us?" Hawkins asked Frank, as the yacht began to steal through the water. "No; let them tow alongside, Hawkins.
"Yes, the Osprey that Colonel Blakeson used to sport up and down the coast in. Paid a cool ten thousand for it, though if he had left it to me I could have got it for eight, I'm sure." "Well, twenty thousand dollars oughtn't to worry Mr. Carwell, I should think," returned Minnie. "It wouldn't have, a year ago," answered LeGrand. "But he's been on the wrong side of the market for some time.
But they, knowing nothing of what had taken place after they parted from the Osprey, were not likely to break bargain in such an affair promising, as it did, some rare fun. The boats which Fred had sent out to scour the seas had not approached the Ootskerries, knowing that the Laulie was there, and that her crew were not likely to miss seeing the lost boat if it came that way.
"Where can we find shelter for Tom?" was the first thing said, and it was Harry who spoke. "We must see to our boat," said Yaspard. They hurriedly piled a few stones together, and laid their jackets on these to make a shelter and couch for Tom; then leaving Harry to look after the patient, the others ran off to secure the Osprey.
Then came the smash of Lord Roberts A, and I found myself with a bandaged face in a bedroom in the Bedley Corner dower-house with Beatrice presiding over an inefficient nurse, Lady Osprey very pink and shocked in the background, and my aunt jealously intervening.
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