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Updated: June 4, 2025
"What'll you give me, captain, if I take you to a cove where they're going to run a cargo to-night?" "Wait and see, my man. You take us there and you shall be rewarded." "No, no," said the man laughing; "that won't do, captain. I'm not going to risk my life for a chance of what you'll give. I want a hundred pounds." "Rubbish, man! Ten shillings," said Lipscombe sharply.
"Sound and well!" replied Sir Austin. "And yours?" "Oh, Lipscombe's always the same!" Lord Heddon sighed peevishly. "He's quiet that's one good thing; but there's no getting the country to take him, so I must give up hopes of that." Lord Lipscombe entering the room just then, Sir Austin surveyed him, and was not astonished at the refusal of the country to take him.
The lieutenant was about to make an angry reply, but he wanted to take that prize, so he went below and wrote out and signed a memorandum to the effect that if, by the informer's guidance, the French schooner was taken, he should be paid one hundred pounds. Lipscombe returned on deck and handed the paper to the fisherman, who took it and held it upside down, studying it attentively.
I told him I should bring you to dinner, but Lieutenant Lipscombe has given you so bad a character that the admiral declared you would take the bribe, and have to go to prison and wait your court-martial. Here, you need not doubt me. Come along." Hilary felt giddy. The reaction was almost more than he could bear.
Hilary Leigh was seaman enough, however, to know what to do without consulting the boatswain, and giving his orders rapidly he stopped the heeling over and beating of the Kestrel upon the sand by relieving her of her sail, in the midst of which he was startled by the voice of Mr Lipscombe. "Good heavens, Mr Leigh!" he exclaimed, angrily, "what does this mean?
So deliberately were the proceedings now going on that Lieutenant Lipscombe grew hot every time he went on deck, and the hotter the commander became the cooler grew "Chips." The lieutenant stormed and bade him make haste. "You are disgracefully slow, sir," he exclaimed.
By the way, before you go will you tell me in a frank gentlemanly spirit what you think of Lieutenant Lipscombe." "No, sir, I can't," said Hilary bluntly. The admiral looked angry on receiving so flat a refusal, but he calmed down directly. Then, recollecting himself, Hilary exclaimed, "I beg your pardon, sir; I hope you will not ask me. I would rather not say."
Lieutenant Lipscombe made up his mind half a dozen times over that he would run into port and send in a despatch detailing Hilary Leigh's desertion; and each time that he so made up his mind, and had the cutter's head laid in the required direction, his eye became so painful that the cook had to supply hot water from the galley, and the worthy officer went below to bathe the injured optic.
Vivian propose to those within to appropriate the amount to their own debts." "Pardon me, Mr. Charnock, this is a very serious charge to bring on the authority of a man in a raving fever. Was any deposition taken before a magistrate?" "No," said Julius. "Mr. Lipscombe was fetched, but he was unable to speak at the time.
Anne put us on the scent. Now, Herbert, I'll go to the poor man at once, and you had better find a magistrate." "Whom can I find?" said Herbert. "There's my father away, and Raymond ill, and Lipscombe waved me off wouldn't so much as speak to me for fear I should be infectious." "You must get a town magistrate."
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