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Updated: June 16, 2025
The mate shouted in the ear of the sailor who rowed the stroke-oar and who was lying next to him: “Crawl forward and try and fix the floor-board there, so as to show a few inches above the bow to act as a head-sail. If she broaches to, it is all up with us. As you go along tell each man to shift himself a bit more aft. Her stern must be well down or I can never keep her straight.
"The floor-board has a little groove into which the wires will fit. You will find that where this board ends is another piece of moulding which will most surprisingly give way to your magic fingers, and the screwdriver, as did the moulding at the other end.
The cariole, such as I was now seated in, is a somewhat simple vehicle. It is formed of a very thin board ten feet long and fourteen inches broad, turned up at one end in the form of a half-circle. To this board a high cradle, like the body of a small carriage, is attached, about eighteen inches from the end of the floor-board.
He did not confide to Flora what he had seen, but the tapping of his foot on the floor-board gave her the information as surely as any spoken word. She startled him not a little by rapping out the enquiry: "How much lead have we got." "Five miles." "We shall do it. They won't average more than twenty-eight and we're good for that. Where are we now?" "Hogs-back." "What's time?"
On the second-floor landing were two tables covered with objects of art, any of which Mr. Prohack might have pocketed and nobody the wiser; the carelessness that left the place unguarded was merely prodigious. Mr. Prohack heard a sound; it might have been the creak of a floor-board or the displacement of a piece of furniture. Startled, he looked through a half-open door into a small room.
Bob was introduced to them off-handedly one morning by the doctor, and though both old ladies started at his name, they said nothing. After the physician's car had gone, Miss Hope came out on to the back porch where Betty was peeling potatoes and Bob mending a loose floor-board. "My sister and I " stammered Miss Hope, "we were wondering if you were a neighbor's boy.
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