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In the garden the air was still and summer-warm and fragrant; on the creek the moonlight lay like a solid floor of silver; the trees stood dreaming to the stars; and as the music floated loud out across the silent lawn, Ethne had a sudden fancy that it might perhaps travel down the creek and over Salcombe Bar and across the moonlit seas, and strike small yet wonderfully clear like fairy music upon the ears of a man sleeping somewhere far away beneath the brightness of the southern stars with the cool night wind of the desert blowing upon his face.
Morny! The three-master's going down!" It was quite true, for the first shot from the Maid of Salcombe, that sent from the long gun, crammed as Joe had said almost to the muzzle, had torn into the slaver just below water-line.
"The next morning, when I had seen the coach and its precious freight move on once more northward, I began the retreat south, hugging myself upon luck and success. I had business in Salcombe perhaps you may have heard of the Salcombe schooners in connection with the fitting out of that sailing wonder, the Peregrine.
"He might have guessed seeing him with you that you were coming to arrange a run. Now, how would he know where we were bound?" "Guessed it," said Hankie. "He's been on a run or two with the Salcombe fellers. Besides, he couldn't be far out" "No," said Marah, musingly; "he couldn't. And a hint would have been enough to send the cutter after us."
"Well," cried Joe, as the boat glided on, "I don't know what you chaps think of it, but I am getting warm again, and I call this 'ere sport. But I say, Mr Rodd, I am beginning to wish you was aboard the Maid of Salcombe, and you'd took me with you." "Same 'ere, sir," cried the men, in chorus. "See any more, Mr Rodd?" "No, not yet, Joe." "Well, there's no hurry, sir. Let's get our breath.
Now then, what ship's this?" "Maid of Salcombe, Plymouth." "Owner?" "I am," said the doctor quietly. "Oh! What are you trading in?" "I am not trading," said the doctor quietly. "This schooner is upon a scientific expedition, under the auspices of the English Government."
He had not forgotten his native county, and in 1863 he took a house at Salcombe on the southern coast of Devonshire. Ringrone, which he rented from Lord Kingsale, is a beautiful spot, now a hotel, then remote from railways, and an ideal refuge for a student.
Salcombe district supplies North Devon; we supply to the east more. Who could it be, boys?" Some said one thing, some another.
A terrific gale had been blowing for some days, when the Eddystone was nearly washed away, and fearful damage was done to shipping in various parts. At length the news reached them that the brig had put into Salcombe range. It is a wild-looking yet land-locked harbour on the Devonshire coast.
For one thing she recognised quite surely: Durrance saw ever so much more clearly now that he was blind. During the months of July and August Ethne's apprehensions grew, and once at all events they found expression on her lips. "I am afraid," she said, one morning, as she stood in the sunlight at an open window of Mrs. Adair's house upon a creek of the Salcombe estuary. In the room behind her Mrs.
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