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HOW, trembling lest we should be discovered, we left Eastbourne by train two hours later Kouaga joining the train at Polegate so as to avoid notice how the Grand Vizier of Mo purchased our travelling necessities in London; how we travelled to Liverpool by the night mail, and how we embarked upon the steamer Gambia, it is unnecessary to relate in detail.
He was a very agreeable, gentlemanly man, with such manners as you don't see in Littlington no, nor in Polegate neither, and very changed from the boy with the red cheeks as used to come past our house on his way to school when he was very little. Harry met him at the station and brought him home, and when he come in he kissed me like a brother, and mother too, and he said
It would seem impossible to be certain either of its age or its purpose, but we may perhaps be sure that it lay there upon the Downs above Polegate before the landing of Caesar, and it may have been the foundation of one of those figures described by him as formed of osiers and filled with living men to be destroyed by fire as a sacrifice for our barbarian gods. Nor is this all.
I took a quiet little place in the country, just outside Eastbourne, to get away from London, and all sorts of new people are prying round us. There was a new parson called the other day for a subscription to some boy scouts' movement or other. He has been hanging round my place for a month, and lives at a cottage near Polegate. Why should he have come to Eastbourne?"
He amassed another fortune in Johannesburg in the boom of '97, and came to this country in 1901, settling on a small estate between Polegate and Eastbourne. He has one nephew, his heir, Frank Merrill, the son of the late Doctor Henry Merrill, who is an accountant in the London and Western Counties Bank. He " Frank looked at him in undisguised amazement. "You know my uncle?"
In the silver basket were new cards, two with 'Mr. and Mrs. Polegate Thom, and one with 'Mr. Polegate Thom' thereon; she sniffed them, but they smelled severe. 'I must be tired, she thought, 'I'll go and lie down. Upstairs the drawing-room was darkened, waiting for some hand to give it evening light; and she passed on up to her bedroom.
"You had arrived there earlier in the evening, and had made your way across the metals to Polegate Junction, where you joined the train. As you had taken the precaution to have your return ticket clipped in London, your trick was not discovered. You had regained your car, and drove up to the house ten minutes after you had been seen to disappear through the gateway.
After passing Polegate a good view may be had on the left of the "Long Man of Wilmington" a figure 230 feet in length with a staff in each hand cut in the escarpment of Windover Hill; this is the only prehistoric figure on the Sussex Downs. Its origin has never been satisfactorily explained. Lower has suggested that it was the work of an idle monk of Wilmington. This is most unlikely.
He was well over fifty. She moved her hands about the table; the Captain moved his head from side to side, and made little sounds, as Betty went on chattering, completely at his ease after twenty years. "Well," he said at length, "I've heard from Mr. Polegate." He had heard from Mr. Polegate that he could advise nothing better than to send a boy to one of the universities. "Mr.
In the silver basket were new cards, two with 'Mr. and Mrs. Polegate Thom, and one with 'Mr. Polegate Thom' thereon; she sniffed them, but they smelled severe. 'I must be tired, she thought, 'I'll go and lie down. Upstairs the drawing-room was darkened, waiting for some hand to give it evening light; and she passed on up to her bedroom.
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