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"Well, go on, Spurge." "There's a lot to go on with, too, guv'nor," said Spurge, after taking another evidently welcome drink. "And I'll try to put it all in order, as it were same as if I was in a witness-box," he added, with a sly glance at Vickers. "You remember that day of the inquest on the actor gentleman, guv'nor?
"It is a tree, or rather a shrub, belonging to the order of the Thymelaceae, or `Daphnads. The plants of this order are found in many countries; but chiefly in the cooler regions of India and South America. There are even representatives of the order in England: for the beautiful `spurge laurel' of the woods and hedges known as a remedy for the toothache is a true daphnad.
He glanced at Spurge and then beckoned the three young men to join him. "I've had a wireless message from the North Sea and it puzzles me," he said. "One of our ships up there has had news of what is surely the Pike from a fishing vessel. She was seen late yesterday afternoon going due east due east, mind you! If that was she and I'm sure of it! our quarry's escaping us."
"Whether it'll lead to the finding of that there gentleman or not I can't say. But something I do know certain sure!" Copplestone reflected awhile. "Ill tell you what, Spurge," he said. "I'll promise you this much. If you can give any information I'll give you my word that whether what you can tell is worth much or little you shall be well paid. That do?" "That'll do, guv'nor," responded Spurge.
The Arum maculatum is "devil's ladies and gentlemen," and the Ranunculus arvensis is the "devil on both sides." The vegetable kingdom also has been equally mindful of his majesty's food, the spurge having long been named "devil's milk" and the briony the "devil's cherry."
"He's not dead!" he exclaimed. "Only unconscious from a crack on his skull. Gilling! where's that brandy you brought? hand me the flask." Zachary Spurge watched in silence as Vickers and Gilling busied themselves in reviving the stricken man. Then he quickly pulled Copplestone's sleeve and motioned him away from the group. "Guv'nor!" he muttered.
My name, guv'-nor well-known hereabouts is Zachary Spurge!" "You sent me that note last night?" asked Copplestone, taking a seat and filling his pipe. "How did you get it there unseen?" "Got a cousin as is odd-job man at the 'Admiral's Arms," replied Spurge. "He slipped it in for me. You may ha' seen him there, guv'nor chap with one eye, and queer-looking, but to be trusted.
Copplestone elbowed his way through the crowd until he met Sir Cresswell and his two companions. All three were eager and excited: Copplestone could only respond to their inquiries with a gloomy shake of the head. "We seem to have the devil's own luck!" he growled dismally. "Spurge and I spotted Andrius by sheer accident. He was on a North Sea tug, or trawler, along the quay here.
There's piles o' places in that glen where a man can hide I picked out one right at the top, at the edge of the moors, where there's the ruins of an old peel tower. I could get shelter in that old tower, and at the same time slip out of it if need be into one of fifty likely hiding places amongst the rocks. I got into touch with my cousin Jim Spurge the one-eyed chap at the 'Admiral's Arms, Mr.
In snug corners, among the rocks, the great spurge of our district, the characias of the Greeks, the jusclo of the Provencals, begins to lift its drooping inflorescence and discreetly opens a few sombre flowers. Here the first midges of the year will come to slake their thirst. By the time that the tip of the stalks reaches the perpendicular, the worst of the cold weather will be over.
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