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The tinker turned and looked at the two young people as if he were estimating their strength. "What are you wondering about?" asked Neale. Creasy smiled as he glanced again at Betty. "Well," he replied, "you're a pretty strong young fellow, mister, I take it, and the young lady looks as if she'd got a bit of good muscle about her.
Neale turned from the broken wall and looked narrowly at the ground about it. "I don't see any signs of anybody being about here recently," he remarked. "There are no footmarks." "There couldn't be, mister," said Creasy. "You could march a regiment of soldiers over this moorland grass for many an hour, and there'd be no footprints on it when they'd gone it's that wiry and strong.
What?" Neale, who had been listening intently, made a movement as if to lay his hand on the grey stones. Betty seized him impulsively. "Don't, Wallie!" she exclaimed. "That frightens me!" Creasy lifted his foot and pressed it against the stones at one edge of the gap.
"Most likely a travelling tinker chap, sir, that comes this way now and again," answered the policeman. "Name of Creasy Tinner Creasy, the folks call him. He's come here for many a year, at odd times. Camps out with his pony and cart, and goes round the villages and farmsteads, seeing if there's aught to mend, and selling 'em pots and pans and such-like. Stops a week or two sometimes longer."
On turning over the leaves to that useful book, 'Men of the Time, the reader finds mention made of the following men of letters and law Sir Archibald Alison, Mr. Thomas Chisholm Anstey, Mr. William Edmonstone Aytoun, Mr. Philip James Bailey, Mr. J.N. Ball, Mr. Sergeant Peter Burke, Sir J.B. Burke, Mr. John Hill Burton, Mr. Hans Busk, Mr. Isaac Butt, Mr. George Wingrove Cooke, Sir E.S. Creasy, Dr.
We are deeply indebted to the unknown owner of this rare volume, and to Mr. Creasy, bookseller, Sleaford, through whom the copy was borrowed to enrich this edition. What is the church? is a question upon which all the subtilty of jesuitic schoolmen and casuists has been exhausted, to mystify and mislead the honest inquirer in every age.
And Creasy presently went on, speaking in a low voice: "If he met with foul play if, for instance, he was thrown over here in a struggle or if, taking a look from the top there, he got too near the edge and something gave way," he said, "there's about as good means of getting rid of a dead man in this Ellersdeane Hollow as in any place in England! That's a fact!"
He never married, but by a daughter of Atahualpa he had a daughter, who survived him. In his native town of Truxillo her descendants are still to be found, with the mingled blood of the conqueror and of the last of the Incas in their veins. By PROFESSOR CREASY
And Creasy himself elsewhere declares: "Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability." This war followed closely upon the War of the Palatinate, which ended with the Treaty of Ryswick, in 1697.
That naval battle at Syracuse, which Creasy puts with Marathon in his famous fifteen, was utterly unimportant: tardy Nicias might have won all through, and still Athens would have fallen. Her political foundations were on the sand. Under Persia you stood a much better chance of enjoying good government and freedom: Persian rule was far less oppressive and cruel.
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