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They cruised along the shore, but in the wrong direction, and shortly our own boat issued from the gloom and took us aboard. They had heard our signal on the ship. We rowed noiselessly away, and before the police-boat came in sight again, we were safe at home once more.
I was just going for a tug when you ran him aboard the police-boat. "At any rate," he said in conclusion, "it's some satisfaction to know that it was you, and not he, that outsailed me." The two Deevers were punished in due course for conspiracy, and Flint for perjury. "On the whole," said Superintendent Byrnes to Nick, "I think that was about the prettiest work I ever saw.
I came to in a snug cove near Manly for the night, the Sydney harbor police-boat giving me a pluck into anchorage while they gathered data from an old scrap-book of mine, which seemed to interest them. Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.
"Well, then, in the first place I shall want a fast police-boat a steam launch to be at the Westminster Stairs at seven o'clock." "That is easily managed. There is always one about there; but I can step across the road and telephone to make sure." "Then I shall want two stanch men, in case of resistance." "There will be two or three in the boat. What else?"
"She looked a charming girl," said Jimmy. They examined the water in silence. From somewhere out in the night came the sound of oars, as the police-boat moved on its patrol. "Does she make you want to go to Japan?" asked Jimmy, suddenly. "Eh?" said Lord Dreever, startled. "Japan?" Jimmy adroitly abandoned the position of confidant, and seized that of confider.
The sampan men, grown quiet and orderly, clustered like flies by the open door, through which they could see and hear what passed. Alf explained his difficulty in few words, and demanded, as the privilege of a stranger in a strange land, that the lieutenant put him aboard in the police-boat.
Perhaps this man, supposed to be drowned, would not have reappeared in this story had it not been for one of the witnesses at the inquest, the boy who overheard the conversation between him and his mate, before the arrival of the police-boat.
They cruised along the shore, but in the wrong direction, and shortly our own boat issued from the gloom and took us aboard. They had heard our signal on the ship. We rowed noiselessly away, and before the police-boat came in sight again, we were safe at home once more.
They cruised along the shore, but in the wrong direction, and shortly our own boat issued from the gloom and took us aboard. They had heard our signal on the ship. We rowed noiselessly away, and before the police-boat came in sight again, we were safe at home once more.
"Seein' as 'ow you refuse information, an' this ferryman thinks fit to defy the law, I 'ave no course open but to whistle for my mate, and leave 'im 'ere while I telephone for a police-boat." He raised his whistle to his lips, but before he could blow it, the climax of this the least successful evening of his life, overwhelmed him.
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