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Vid. also Ranke, vol. i., pp. 381-2. It is remarkable that it should be passed over by Professor Creasy in his "Fifteen Decisive Battles." Barbarism and Civilization. My object in the sketch which I have been attempting, of the history of the Turks, has been to show the relation of this celebrated race to Europe and to Christendom.
Creasy, in his Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, says concerning the battle of Waterloo, "The great battle which ended the twenty-three years' war of the first French revolution, and which quelled the man whose genius and ambition had so long disturbed and desolated the world, deserves to be regarded by us ... with peculiar gratitude for the repose which it secured for us and for the greater part of the human race."
"You mean the lead-mines?" murmured Neale. "Right, sir! Do you know how many of these old workings there is?" asked Creasy. "There's between fifty and sixty within a square mile of this tower. Some's fenced in most isn't. Some of their mouths are grown over with bramble and bracken. And all of 'em are of tremendous depth.
Horbury," remarked Creasy, with a glance at Neale and Betty. "I've talked to him a hundred-and-one times on this waste. So it's him, is it? Well, there's one thing you can be certain about." "What?" asked Betty eagerly. "Mr. Horbury wouldn't happen aught by accident, hereabouts," answered the tinker significantly. "He knew every inch of this Hollow.
Betty uttered a sharp exclamation and took the pipe in her hand. She turned to Neale with a look of sudden fear. "It's the pipe I gave my uncle last Christmas!" she said. "Of course I know it! Where did you find it?" she went on, turning on Creasy. "Do tell us do show us!" "Foot of the crag there, miss right beneath the old tower," answered Creasy. "And it's just as I found it.
At the same time she pushed the creasy yellow cover of cream to the farther side, with a watchful glance at Trenholme's saucer, evidently meaning that it was kept for him. She and the elder boy and girl waited to sup till the little ones had finished. Trenholme endeavoured to say that he should not want any more cream, but she did not understand his words.
The superintendent and the detective listened silently to Neale's account of the meeting with Creasy, and Betty, watching Starmidge's face, saw that he was quietly taking in all the points of importance. "Is this tin-man to be depended upon?" he asked, when Neale had finished. "Is he known?" "I know him," answered Polke. "He's come to this neighbourhood for many years.
"There's no proof that the other gentleman was with him." "Aye, well I'm going on what these paper accounts say," answered Creasy. "They all take it for granted that those two were together. Well, about these old shaftings, mister I did notice something very early this morning that I thought might be looked into." "What is it?" asked Neale.
Some folks, now, might take a header into one o' them old lead-mines. He wouldn't. He could ha' gone blind-fold over this spot." "Well he's disappeared," observed the policeman. "There's a search being made, all round. You heard naught last night, I suppose?" Creasy gave Neale and Betty a look.
The battle of Poltava was selected by Sir Edward Creasy as one of the fifteen great decisive contests which have altered the fate of nations. His able narrative of the battle has been superseded in scholars' eyes by the more modern work of the great Russian authority, Waliszewski; but the importance of the event remains.
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