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"Five weeks ago? No. I and my wife went away down to Swanage to see her sister. The master gave us a fortnight's holiday. Why?" "Oh nothing," I replied. "I merely inquired as I want to clear up a mystery that's all." "What mystery?" "The mystery of Miss Engledue your master's niece," I answered. "But I've never heard of any niece," he said.
Their vessels were larger than the Danish galleys and could better keep the sea in a storm. Many miles were passed before, from the decks, the Danish flotilla could be seen. Presently, however, a great number of their galleys were discerned rowing in towards Swanage Bay. In spite of the increasing fury of the wind the Saxons spread more sail and succeeded in intercepting the Danes.
They had done more in a week than in two years, and were really beginning to know each other. She did not forget his promise to sample Eustace Miles, and asked him as soon as she could secure Tibby as his chaperon. He came, and partook of body-building dishes with humility. Next morning the Schlegels left for Swanage. They had not succeeded in finding a new home.
Frank at once put on his hat. "We had a sharp fight with the smugglers last night, your honour," the sailor said as they started. "We had been cruising about for two days to the west, and yesterday morning we made out to sea and held east, and at ten o'clock came into Swanage Bay. We came upon the lugger that has fooled us so many times, and for once we caught her napping.
The Devitts could make nothing of her; her behaviour was so utterly alien to the scarcely suppressed triumph which they had expected. But just now they did not give very much attention to her; they were chiefly concerned for Harold, whose manner betrayed an extra-ordinary elation quite foreign to the depression which had troubled him before his departure for Swanage.
I accordingly proceeded to Swanage, the nearest town, and called on my master's sister, who lived there, who took me in and was giving me some supper, when my master chanced to come in himself, and was very angry with me and told me to come along with him, declaring that he would pay me out in the morning.
Gault: 0. Wealden: 0. Upper Purbeck Oolite : 0. Middle Purbeck Oolite : 14 Swanage. Lower Purbeck Oolite: 0. Portland Oolite: 0. Kimmeridge Clay: 0. Coral Rag: 0. Oxford Clay: 0. Great Oolite: 4 Stonesfield. Inferior Oolite: 0. Lias: 0. Upper Trias: 4 Wurtemberg, Somersetshire. N. Carolina. Middle Trias: 0. Lower Trias: 0. Permian: 0. Carboniferous : 0. Devonian: 0. Silurian: 0. Cambrian: 0.
"Shall we go to Exeter, or back to Mercia?" I said. "Exeter they say; but I know not. Why not go and ask Jarl Osmund himself or follow the crowd and hinder no one with questions?" He hurried on; but then some men began to question us about the doings off Swanage, and Kolgrim told them such tales that they shivered, and soon we had a crowd round us listening.
A thing Graham had already learnt, and which he found very hard to imagine, was that nearly all the towns in the country, and almost all the villages, had disappeared. Here and there only, he understood, some gigantic hotel-like edifice stood amid square miles of some single cultivation and preserved the name of a town as Bournemouth, Wareham, or Swanage.
But now the steamers pant across to Swanage pier again and unload the curious crowd who make straight for the Great Globe and Tilly Whim and pause to "rest and admire" as they breast the steep slopes of Durlston. The tutelary genius of Swanage is of stone and the two high priests of the idol were Mowlein and Burt.
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