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An hour later the shallop, now riding gayly upon the flood tide, put forth from Barnstable Harbor, carrying not only its own crew, but Janno with several of his followers, he having volunteered as guide and negotiator with Aspinet for the restoration of little Billington.
It might have occurred to a person more critical than Cleggett that it was he himself who had furnished nearly all the real evidence upon which Wilton Barnstable was constructing this Case of Logan Black.
Now that Cleggett knew the commander of the Annabel Lee to be Wilton Barnstable, his first impulse was to go to the Great Detective and invite his cooperation against Loge and the gang at Morris's. But almost instantly he reflected that he could not do this. For there was the box of Reginald Maltravers!
The three detectives stood and looked at the three boxes with an air of great satisfaction. "With this addition to our oblong boxes," said Wilton Barnstable, "their number is now complete. Miss Henrietta Pringle, we will listen to your story." There was little to tell, and Miss Henrietta Pringle told it in a breath.
Barnstable, or for the hope of God's mercy, go into the boat, for the love of my cousin Katherine." The young lieutenant paused in his troubled walk, and for a moment he cast a glance of hesitation at the cliffs; but, at the next instant, his eyes fell on the ruin of his vessel, and he answered: "Never, boy, never; if my hour has come, I will not shrink from my fate."
Instead, they stood in the waist of the vessel and thought. Visibly they thought. Wilton Barnstable thought. Barton Ward thought. Watson Bard thought. They thought in silence. Cleggett could almost feel these three master brains pulsating in unison, working in rhythmic accord, there in the silence; the sense of this intense cerebral effort became almost oppressive....
At such times he was rarely seen by his former companions of Barnstable, because of his habit of secluding himself for study. It is narrated that at this period of his life, young Otis gave strong evidence of the excitable temperament with which he was endowed.
"Well, then," cried Barnstable, "all our captives are seated. The boat waits only for its officers!" In his turn, Griffith walked away, in haughty silence, as if disdaining to hold communion with his former friend.
As they stretched in to the shore on the first tack, the soldiers on the cliffs rent the air with their shouts and acclamations, to which Barnstable, pointing to the assumed symbols that were fluttering in the breeze from his masts, directed his crew to respond in the most cordial manner.
"Do you think that a barge or a cutter is to be beached in the same manner you ground firelock, by word of command? No, no, Captain Manual I honor your courage, for I have seen it tried, but d e if " "You forget, we wait for your project, Mr. Barnstable," said the veteran. "I crave your patience, sir; but no project is necessary.
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