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Updated: June 2, 2025
It was a thrilling moment for me, standing there with one hand on the writing-table, my gaze fixed over the scantily covered top of Mrs. Pelly's head she wore no hat upon the trees in the distance. Prudence gabbled at me: 'You can't afford it. You must eat. You'll be sold up, and serve you right. But, of course, the table and the window won.
Or suppose the diving operations, and the native testimony, and Pelly's chart of the boat's course, and the boat itself, to be all stages of some epidemic hallucination or steps in a conspiracy suppose even a second taumualua to have entered Apia bay after nightfall, and to have been fired upon from Grevsmühl's wharf in the full career of hostilities against Mulinuu suppose all this, and Becker is not helped.
A volley at least was fired from the wharf, at about fifty yards' range and with a very ill direction, one bullet whistling over Pelly's head on board the Lizard. Off Matautu they were hailed from the seaward by one of the Adler's boats, which had been suddenly despatched on the sound of the firing or had stood ready all evening to secure the gun.
The three men were facing them now, shocked to speechlessness. Automatically they seemed to obey her command to throw up their hands. Then she leveled her grim little gun straight at Pelly's heart. "You have the key," she said. "Unlock the cell!" Felly fumbled and produced the key. She watched him closely. Then suddenly the special constable dropped his arms with a coarse laugh.
But she was not in her bedroom, and returning to the other room I found a note on the table. 'I am not feeling well, the note said, 'and cannot come with you to-day. So I shall spend the day with mother, and be back here about tea-time. For a moment I thought of hurrying round to Mrs. Pelly's, and seeing if I could prevail on Fanny to change her mind.
From Pelly's Banks to the Pacific coast the route is still easier for not only do the Russians visit these parts, but there are native Indian traders who go twice every year from Pelly's Banks to Sitka the entrepot of the Russian Fur Company and the Lynn channel, a little to the north of Sitka, is also visited by the steamers of the Hudson's Bay Company itself.
Dick slipped a five-dollar bill into the old man's hand, at which Jock Pelly's face relaxed. A few minutes later the elder Rover had joined Luke Peterson and was telling the lumberman what he had heard. "Needle Point Island!" exclaimed Peterson. "Yes, I know the spot Years ago it was a great hanging-out place for smugglers. But our government cleaned out the nest."
At the end of eight or nine months my increasing knowledge of Mrs. Pelly's harsh unkindness to Fanny had begun to weigh on my mind a good deal. It was a singular case, in many ways.
From Fort Halkett, a route has been established to the post at Pelly's Banks by means of Dease's river which is one of the effluents of the Riviere aux Liards and partly by canoe navigation and partly by "portage;" the continent can be crossed in this northern latitude.
Or suppose the diving operations, and the native testimony, and Pelly's chart of the boat's course, and the boat itself, to be all stages of some epidemic hallucination or steps in a conspiracy suppose even a second taumualua to have entered Apia bay after nightfall, and to have been fired upon from Grevsmuhl's wharf in the full career of hostilities against Mulinuu suppose all this, and Becker is not helped.
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