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"You are consigned to us, I think," said he. "I am Mr. Havens." "That is right, sir," replied the captain, shaking hands. "You will find the owner, Mr. Dodd, below. Mind the fresh paint on the house." Havens stepped along the alley-way, and descended the ladder into the main cabin. "Mr. Dodd, I believe," said he, addressing a smallish, bearded gentleman, who sat writing at the table.
"There was no one in sight, and I reached Broadway before I ran across man or woman. Even then I got by without any one speaking to me, and, favored by Providence, found a nook at the end of an alley-way, where I remained undiscovered till it was late enough in the morning for me to enter a shop and buy a hat. "The rest of my movements are known. I found my way to Mrs.
"So I was," she said bluntly, and heard him laugh. "St-still I needn't have mentioned it." Then his steps grew faint along the alley-way. She sat back on her heels, frowning. She was wondering why he would not look at her, why he flushed and stammered when he spoke to her. He was back in a few minutes, explaining that he had been to the cook's galley for boiling water to make tea.
My wife and I returned to our cabin to fetch an extra pair of spectacles, our passports, and my pocketbook, and at the same time picked up her jewel-case. The alley-way between the companion-way and our cabin was by this time strewn with splinters of wood and glass and wreckage; pieces of shell had been embedded in the panelling and a large hole made in the funnel.
Her face Eph couldn't see very well, on account of the veil, but he decided that the young woman possessed beautiful, flashing eyes, as he caught their expression dimly through the veil. Down another quiet side street they were passing, when they came to the head of an alley-way. Just as they reached it the girl let go of Eph's arm, uttering a little scream as she darted away.
It seemed as if the whole town bellowed at his back; for windows creaked above his head, and doors banged wildly after him; curs from every alley-way came yelping at his heels; apprentices let go the shutter-bars, and joined in the chase; and near and nearer came the cry of "Stop, thief, stop!" and the kloppety-klop of hob-nailed shoes in wild pursuit.
"These old rookeries will go by when Gridley real estate gets to be just a little more valuable," grunted Dave, as he picked his way gingerly in the darksome spot. "It's really a disgrace to the town, this place," replied Dick. "Hullo! Who's moving there? O-o-oh say!" They were just at the head of the narrow alley-way leading down to the stable.
Paul found it absolutely impossible for him to enter the not unattractive front of this establishment but there was a "private entrance" in a small dark alley-way; so delicate is the consideration of an uncle whose business it is to nourish those in distress.
The shop was long, dark, intricate; its main window overshadowed by the bulk of the Town Hall, across the narrow alley-way; its end window, which gave on the Quay, blocked high with cheeses, biscuit-tins, boxes of soap, and dried Newfoundland cod. Into this gloom the child flung her voice, and Captain Cai was aware of the upper half of a man's body dimly silhouetted there against the panes.
At the corner stood a small grocery store, whose proprietor was in the doorway. "I wonder," began Jack, "whether you saw a woman came down out of this alley-way lately? A tall woman?" "About twenty minutes ago I saw a tall woman, in a gray dress and wearing a gray veil," replied the storekeeper. "Was she carrying anything?" "Some sort of a grip a suit case, I guess."
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