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The coachman's capacious overcoat hung on a chair near where its owner slept. Mr. Milsom deliberately put on this coat, and the hat which Mr. Brook had worn with it. There was a thick woollen scarf of the coachman's lying on the floor near the chair, and this Black Milsom also put on, twisting it several times round his neck, so as to completely muffle the lower part of his face.
Thus, thanks to the exceeding care with which Milsom had made his dispositions, Jack who, with the two Montijos, was supposed to be down below and Macintyre, fully equipped in their diving dresses, and with their tools slung to their belts, had not the slightest difficulty in leaving the yacht unobserved, and descending to the bottom of the harbour by way of a diving ladder.
Milsom, dozing in the corner of the car, awoke with a start. "Is Beale content with his prize and his predicament?" asked van Heerden. "Well, I guess he should be. That little job brings him a million. He shouldn't worry about anything further." But van Heerden shook his head. "I don't think you have things quite right, Milsom," he said.
There's the little private room at your service, captain, and I dare say you can make yourself comfortable there with your pipe and the newspaper. It's ten to one but what Tom Milsom will look in before the day's out, and he'll tell you all about his daughter."
And, so saying, and followed by Milsom, he descended to the main deck and stationed himself at the head of the gangway ladder, by which time the boat was alongside. Another moment and the Capitan-General, hat in hand, and bowing courteously to the two Englishmen, passed in through the gangway, followed by the captain of the cruiser.
But Milsom explained that he had had enough of Havana: he had been to the theatre twice, and considered that it was not a patch upon the Alhambra in Leicester Square at home; he had been to the Cathedral, and had been shown the tomb of Christopher Columbus the genuineness of which he greatly doubted; he had sauntered in the Alameda in the evenings, listening to the military bands, of which he thought nothing, and trying to discover a Spanish girl that could hold a candle to one of our own wholesome, handsome English lasses, and had failed; and he had also tried, and had failed, to determine the precise number of separate and distinct odours "stinks", he called them which go to make up the characteristic smell of Havana.
This key Black Milsom had often heard of, and knew that it was always carried by Brook in a small breast-pocket of his overcoat. From the garden he made his way quickly, silently, to the quadrangle on which Stephen Plumpton's bed-chamber opened. Here all was dark and silent.
Larkspur presented himself before her. "Well, Mr. Larkspur, what news?" she cried, eagerly, as he entered the room. "Not much, my lady; but there's something done, at any rate. I've found out one fact." "And what is that?" "That the little lady has not been taken out of the country. Now, you seem to know something of the man Milsom, my lady.
It was to the rigour of the climate that Felix Neff was eventually compelled to succumb. Yet much has been done of late years for the amelioration of the French Vaudois; and among the most zealous workers in their behalf have been the Rev. Mr. Freemantle, rector of Claydon, Bucks, and Mr. Edward Milsom, the well-known merchant of Lyons. It was in the year 1851 that the Rev. Mr.
When the frail craft, propelled by the four sturdy oarsmen, pushed off, and went dancing, light as an empty eggshell, over the purple swell toward the convict ship, the officers on the bridge of which did not fail to note that the crew of the stranger had carefully trained two long, beautifully polished guns and a couple of Maxims on them, "as a gentle hint that there was to be no nonsense," as Milsom put it.
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