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Charles Maxwell, Rural Route Fifty-three, Martin's Hill Road," she read. Her daughter began to whimper. The station-master frowned. "Hum," he said, "that's the Herm er, d'you know him?" Mrs. Bagley said: "I've never met him. What kind of a man is he?" That was the sort of question the station-master appreciated. His job was neither demanding nor exciting; an opportunity to talk was worth having.
I shook him very heartily by the hand and clapped him on the back and told him how much we were indebted to him, and how it was his prompt warning that enabled me to get across to Herm before they set their patrol boats and very briefly of what had passed and was toward, and so left him, content and cheerful.
"And what does Peter Port say to it all?" "Pergui! Peter Port didn't like having its bread taken out of its mouth, not that it's bread contents Monsieur Torode, not by a very long way. Fine doings there are on Herm, they say, when they're all at home there. But he's too big and bold a man to interfere with. He pays for the island, they say, and a good price too.
... All the west was dark and dim. The sea was the colour of lead. Brecqhou was a long black shadow. Herm and Jethou were darker spots on the dimness beyond, and Guernsey was not to be seen. The sky up above me was thin and vague. But away in the east over France, behind long banks of soft dark cloud, it was thinner and rarer still, and seemed to throb with a little pulse of life.
Professor Ansted includes the Robin in his list, but, as with the Hedgesparrow, only mentions it as occurring in Guernsey and Sark. It is, however, equally common in Alderney, Jethou, and Herm. REDSTART. Ruticilla phoenicurus, Linnaeus. French, "Rouge-queue," "Bec-fin des murailles."
For Carette and my mother and home and everything lay up the climbing way, and I believed, poor fool, that I had got the better of a man like Torode of Herm. At sight of us, one came running down from Les Lâches where he had gone at sound of the firing, and greeted us with amazement. "Bon Gyu, Phil Carré! And we thought you dead! And Helier Le Marchant! Where do you come from?
It cannot be kept quiet, Zeus; the philosophers' debate is public, and you will be accused of despotic methods, if you maintain reserve on a matter of so great and general interest. Zeus. Make proclamation and summon all, then. I approve your judgement. Herm. Here, assemble, all ye Gods; don't waste time, come along, here you are; we are going to have an important meeting. Zeus.
If we could get across to Sercq before Torode could lay us by the heels, we would be safe among our own folks, and, unless I was very much mistaken, he would no more than visit Herm and away before I could raise Peter Port against him. Neither of us had travelled that land before, but we knew the direction we had to take, and the stars kept us to our course.
In Alderney it is quite as common as in Guernsey, and I saw two nests this year amongst the long grass growing on the earthworks near the Artillery Barracks; it is equally common also both in Jethou, Sark, and Herm.
At other times of year than the breeding-season, the Storm Petrel can only be considered an occasional storm-driven visitant to the Islands. It is included in Professor Ansted's list, and marked as occurring in Alderney, Sark, Jethou, and Herm. With this bird ends my list of the Birds of Guernsey and the neighbouring Islands.
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