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Chubb was to command the vessel, and he offered to Webster and myself the posts of first and second hands. The remuneration was very handsome, and we, not adverse to the prospect of a little adventure, had little hesitation in closing with the proposal, much to Chubb's satisfaction, who said we were "just the sort he wanted." His employer, Mr.
As to my friend Webster, adorned with a black eye, he never ceased, during the remainder of the voyage, to declaim against Chubb's foolhardiness and uphold his own proceedings on the eventful night. For his own discomfiture he sought consolation in rum, protesting that it was a miracle that any of us had survived to taste another drop of that liquid comforter.
"There you are, then, sir," said the skipper, in answer to a look from the doctor, "and now we will leave you to it." "And I suppose," said Uncle Paul, "that you will have no hesitation, sir, in following Captain Chubb's advice?" "And making for the mouth of some river," said the Count, glancing at his son, "to get the brig ashore, so as to repair her?" "Exactly," said Uncle Paul.
Chubb's was a port for him when gales blew too high; but when you dined there and Hunky went for your steak you never knew whether he would come to anchor in the kitchen or in the Malayan Archipelago. You wouldn't care for his description he was soft of voice and hard of face, and rarely had to use more than one eye to quell any approach to a disturbance among Chubb's customers.
His treasure his oracle his book of power, the labelled parcel of Wylder's letters, with the annotated map folded beside them he replaced in their red-taped ligature in his iron safe, and with Chubb's key in his pocket, took his hat and cane the day was fine and walked forth for Brandon and the captain's study. A pleasant day, a light air, a frosty sun.
Each time he did so he finished up by unconsciously looking round the room, as though in search of something. Then we heard the deep strong voice of the Detective: "So far as I can see, the object was to bring that key to the lock of the safe. There seems to be some secret in the mechanism that I am unable to guess at, though I served a year in Chubb's before I joined the police.
"Walled up, except where these boards, cased in iron, are nailed across, with a little door just big enough to creep through; but that is locked, Chubb's lock, and Mr. Darrell keeps the key! treasures for a palace! No, you can't peep through here not a chink; but come on a little further, mind your footing."
"I'll warrant the old hunks has Bramah locks and Chubb's burglar proofs to fence this beauty off!" growled the Major, as he sank back in the carriage. "I fancy, though, that a liberal dose of Madame Louison's gold, judiciously administered by me, in her interest, to Justine Delande, may open the way to the girl's presence! The mother's story may serve to win the girl's heart.
"I never dreamed I was anywhere near them! I'll get Mr. Chubb to take me there to-morrow. Of course you'll like her. She's well, she's just like you!" The next day Mr. Toby Chubb's "Fly-by-day," as Dr. Travis called the one automobile that Miller's Notch boasted, chugged busily over the mountain roads.
"All I could do was to hustle back to that Boca place and panhandle Major Bing. He detached himself from enough of his winnings to buy me a ticket home. And I'm back again on the job at Chubb's, sir, and I'm going to hold it steady. Come round, and you'll find the steaks as good as ever."
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