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I sailed on December 3rd from Liverpool in a boat bound for the Argentine that was due to put in at Lisbon. I had of course to get a Foreign Office passport to leave England, but after that my connection with the Government ceased. All the details of my journey were carefully thought out. Lisbon would be a good jumping-off place, for it was the rendezvous of scallywags from most parts of Africa.
He is rather above the average native in intelligence, and may be able to throw some light on the mystery." "Is he dependable?" asked Ned. "I think so. He has been with me for a long time, ever since I came to this out-of-the-way jumping-off place." "Well," Ned said, "you go back to the hut, if you will be so kind, and take the boys with you. I want to look about a little."
I shall want you to meet me at the South Station, New York train, at seven o'clock." "Yes, doctor. What sort of a case is it?" "Same as the last you assisted me in brain tumor. But we're going further this trip ... the jumping-off place in Virginia. It's up in the mountains, so take plenty of warm clothes." "Very well, doctor."
We bought a bottle or so of beer here; at any rate they called it beer, but I knew by the price that it was dissolved jewelry, and I perceived by the taste that dissolved jewelry is not good stuff to drink. We were surrounded by a hideous desolation. We stepped forward to a sort of jumping-off place, and were confronted by a startling contrast: we seemed to look down into fairyland.
"Have you ever thought that possibly there might exist larger and more highly organized creatures transparent to eyesight, yet palpable to touch? "Little Sprite Lake is the jumping-off place; beyond lie the Everglades, the outskirts of which are haunted by the Seminoles, the interior of which have never been visited by man, as far as we know.
There, in tiny one-roomed houses built in rows like barracks were the girls and women who had drifted to this jumping-off place of the world. In the daytime they slept or sat on the narrow, ramshackle porches, untidy, noisy, unspeakably wretched. At night, however, they blossomed forth in tawdry finery, in the dancing-space behind the gambling-tables. Some of them were fixtures.
The result is an irregular succession of steps equally irregular, with enough literal jumping-off places to relieve any possible monotony attending the promenade. If the growth of the town seems to continue satisfactory, its houses at least those in or near its central portions begin gradually to pass through the next stage in their development.
The doe saw him, but instead of turning to flee she stood and impatiently stamped her foot several times. Then as he seemed to pay no attention and to be harmless, she and her young began to graze again, and shortly disappeared. Before long we arrived at what may be called the "jumping-off place."
Have to do my own manicuring down in this jumping-off place, and I never have time for it mornings; barely get to the old academy soon enough to escape the tardy record sometimes I don't escape. Never knew you to come this way before, even if it is a short cut. In a hurry?" "Ye-yes no, not exactly; but this was as good a way as any."
Great, don't you think?" Val clasped her hands before her and let her gaze travel again over the sweep of rugged hills. "It's wonderful. I thought I knew, but I see I didn't. I feel very small, Manley; does one ever grow up to it?" He seemed dimly to catch the note of utter desolation. "You'll get used to all that," he assured her. "I thought I'd reached the jumping-off place, at first.
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