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Anyway, he quibbled to himself, he had a clear right to pursue the matter until he unearthed the truth. Acting upon this decision, David returned to town, though not without a lurking sense of shame. A few evenings after, he sought out Mrs. Branscome at a dance. The blood rushed to her face when she caught his figure, and as quickly ebbed away. "So you have not gone, after all?"
On August 28 we received word from Captain Branscome that he had taken berths for us on the Townshend packet, commanded by an old friend of his, a Captain Harrison. She was due to sail on the 1st. Accordingly, on August 30 we travelled down by Royal Mail to Falmouth, Mr.
The candles were shaded, and from the sofa where I lay I saw across the cloth the faces of Miss Belcher and Captain Branscome intent on the Doctor. He was leaning forward from the head of the table and speaking to Plinny, who sat with her back to me, darkly silhouetted against the light. Mr.
At the shut of dusk, as we kicked the football in triumph about our own back yard, Mrs. Stimcoe sought me out with a letter to be conveyed to Captain Branscome. I took it and ran. The lamplighter, going his rounds, met me at the corner of Killigrew Street and directed me to the alley in which the captain's lodgings lay.
Strange anticipated the solution of the problem with an approach to excitement. Two events, however, prevented the complete realisation of his scheme. One was a lingering illness which struck him down when David was twenty-four and about to enter on his ordeal. The second, occurring simultaneously, was the advent of Mrs. Branscome then Kate Alden to Grindelwald.
I must do what I would gladly have avoided, and ask the ladies to give me more authority over him, since they will not exercise it themselves." At the implied sneer and perhaps even more at the tone of it, so foreign to the Captain Branscome that I knew I blazed up wrathfully. "If you mean by that," said I, "to threaten me with the rope's-end, I advise you to try it.
'Vanity of vanities, Captain what the Preacher discovered long ago I discovered again and of my own experience." "The Christian religion, sir " began Captain Branscome. But here our strange host laid a hand on his arm. "We forget our politeness," he interrupted, yet gently, and without suspicion of offence. "We keep the ladies waiting."
He stood erect, with the bundle clipped under his left arm; and the bundle I made out to be a flag, rolled up and strapped about with its own lanyard. "'One more question, Captain Branscome, said he. 'This Captain Coffin, as you call him is he, to the best of your knowledge, an honest man? "I answered that I had heard question of Coffin's sanity, but never of his honesty.
The more my suspicions grew, the more they were incredible. That Captain Branscome, of all men in the world, should be guilty of such a crime! And yet, with this damning evidence in my hand, I could not but recall a dozen trifles mere straws, to be sure all pointing towards him. He had been here in my father's garden: that I might take as proven. With what object?
Sure enough, in a moment Glass's eyelids fluttered a little, and he came back to life with an audible catch of the breath. "In two minutes' time, sir" the Doctor turned to Captain Branscome "I shall be glad of your services, and of Mr. Goodfellow's, to carry the fellow down to the boat that is to say, if, in deference to the ladies, you have really decided not to leave him here to his fate.
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