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At six-thirty that morning Margaret Halley was aroused by her maid the latter but half awake and sitting up in bed and switching on the lamp, she looked at the card which the servant had brought to her, and read the following: CHIEF INSPECTOR KERRY, C.I.D. New Scotland Yard, S.W.I. "Oh, dear," she said sleepily, "what an appallingly early visitor. Is the bath ready yet, Janet?"
The English astronomer Halley had left as a sort of legacy the task of examining the transit of Venus, which he predicted for the year 1769, pointing out its paramount importance for determining the distance of the sun from the earth. This transit could only be observed in the southern hemisphere, and it was in order to observe it that Cook made his first voyage of exploration.
He summoned up a smile and advanced. "Good evening, Miss Halley," he said, striving to speak genially for of all of his wife's friends he liked Margaret Halley the best. "Were you expecting to find Rita at home?" The girl's expression was vaguely troubled. She had the clear complexion and bright eyes of perfect health, but to-night her eyes seemed over-bright, whilst her face was slightly pale.
Dartrey set sharp eyes on him for an instant, bowed; and went. The day of Nesta's return was one of a number of late when Victor was robbed of his walk Westward by Lady Grace Halley, who seduced his politeness with her various forms of blandishment to take a seat in her carriage; and she was a practical speaker upon her quarter of the world when she had him there.
But, in the mean time, Halley, guided by the revelations of Kepler and Newton, had discovered that its motions, so far from being controlled by the supplications of Christendom, were guided in an elliptic orbit by destiny.
"Well, I suppose it cannot be helped," she added and smilingly extended her hand. "Good night, Mr. Irvin. Don't bother to come to the door." But Irvin passed Hinkes and walked out under the porch with Margaret Halley.
Hither, too, came Professor Halley, the great astronomer, to meet his friends on his weekly visit to London from Oxford, and Sir Hans Sloane, that zealous collector of curiosities, was often to be met at the Grecian. Nor did the house wholly lack patrons of the pen, for Goldsmith, among others, used the resort quite frequently.
We have also had occasion to mention that among the illustrious successors of Flamsteed both Halley and Bradley are to be included. But a remarkable development of Greenwich Observatory from the modest establishment of early days took place under the direction of the distinguished astronomer whose name is at the head of this chapter.
The horses were still; but, through the drive of the fine rain, men could hear the feet of many horses moving over stony ground. 'We're being stalked, said Lieutenant Halley. 'They've no horses here. Besides they'd have fired before this, said the Major. 'It's it's villagers' ponies. 'Then our horses would have neighed and spoilt the attack long ago.
In 1700 it was taken possession of by the celebrated Halley in the name of the English Government, but it had to be ceded to the Portuguese, who formed a settlement there. La Pérouse found it still in existence at the same place in 1785.
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