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At 4.45 p.m. the visitors were warned off the ship, and a quarter of an hour later we slipped from our wharf in the South-West India Docks and proceeded into the river and thence to Greenhithe, where we anchored off my old training ship, the "Worcester," and gave the cadets a chance to look over the ship.
The following notice appeared in the Daily Express of 9th June 1910. "A subterranean chamber with a spiral staircase at one end and a Gothic roof has been discovered at Greenhithe. It is believed to have been a hermit's cell."
This, then, was soon arranged, and after letters had been sent off announcing Anthony's movements, he left Speke Hall with Isabel, about a fortnight later. On the first day of June, Anthony and Isabel, with their three armed servants and the French maid behind them, were riding down through Thurrock to the north bank of the Thames opposite Greenhithe.
"I did not see the whistle, sir; but he is as you say." This made it certain that it was the man they had seen in the inn opposite Greenhithe; and also practically certain that he was a spy; for nothing that Anthony had done could have roused his suspicions except the breaking of the bread; and that would only be known to one who was deep in the counsels of the Catholics.
The tide was running with them, the afternoon was charming. Mr. Tartar's boat was perfect. Mr. Mr. Tartar had a yacht, it seemed, lying somewhere down by Greenhithe; and Mr. Tartar's man had charge of this yacht, and was detached upon his present service. He was a jolly-favoured man, with tawny hair and whiskers, and a big red face.
Only six weeks ago I was on the river in an ancient, rough, ship's boat, fitted with a two-cylinder motor-engine of 7.5 h.p. Just a common ship's boat, which the man who owns her uses for taking the workmen and stevedores to and from the ships loading at the buoys off Greenhithe. She would have carried some thirty people. No doubt has carried as many daily for many months.
How proud I am of you both!" She told him, too, how they had been tracked to Stanfield Lackington had let it out in his exultation. The sailor at Greenhithe was one of his agents an apostate, like his master. He had recognised that the party consisted of Catholics by Anthony's breaking of the bread.
Rands had remarked that the wind was increasing, but had deferred shortening sail. The ship was an old one, but newly rigged throughout. Her compasses had been adjusted and the ship swung at Greenhithe, just before the voyage. Mr.
"It is the third time I have heard it," he said: "once in the woods behind Longfield, and once just before the little village with the steepled church." The sound had ceased again. "It is some one who has come nearly all the way from Greenhithe behind us. Perhaps they are not following but again " "They?" she said; "there is only one."
Then at the end of the next reach the hamlet of Grays was passed on the right; a mile further Greenhithe on the left. Tide was getting slack now, but the Susan managed to get as far as Purfleet, and then dropped her anchor. "This is our last stopping-place," Joe Chambers said. "The morning tide will carry us up to London Bridge." "Then you will not go on with to-night's tide?" Geoffrey asked.
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