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It's just like him a sneaking spy." "Ritchie said those fellows were nosing around a good deal to find out about my being away from the academy," observed Frank. "I suppose they're pretty curious." "Yes, and they're bolting away from the ball game the way you did stirs them up," said Bob. "Well, the transom is nailed shut, so any eavesdropper wouldn't be likely to hear much," declared Frank.
When she signalled that nine of her people had been wounded by shell and shrapnel fire, and the 352's skipper ordered a deck officer and a whale-boat away, he also told Doc to break out his medical gear and go along. Doc already had his surgical gear ready; from the first word of the shelling he had gone below, and now everything was laid out ready for action on the ward-room transom.
I'll bet my switch it's that scraggy old hen in forty-four, wantin' me to run out and buy her some hair pins, or to hook her up so she'll look like a prize winner at a wasp show. She makes me sick, she does! But I'll Yes Ma'am! Coming right away," she answered in a honeyed voice, as the lady guest was heard calling her name through a transom somewhere in the distance.
"Now hold you that, Mr Cringle." I took hold of the other leg, and held it in a fitting position, while Transom deliberately sewed them both up. "Now for the coat sleeves" We sealed them in a similar manner. "So now for his shirt."
Challoner could hear the laughing remark with which he met and dismissed the half-dozen men and women who had been drawn to this end of the hall by what had sounded to them like a fracas between angry men. The clock in the hotel office struck three. Orlando Brotherson counted the strokes; then went on writing. His transom was partly open and he had just heard a step go by his door.
" . . . because he's a bad lot, and he may so well know I think so. And to this I set my hand, this 17th day of September, 1856." "Signed" "Ebenezer Transom." "Witnessed by" "John Hooper." "Peter Tregaskis." The document was in the old man's handwriting, and clearly of his composition. But it was plain enough, and the signatures genuine. 'Lizabeth's hand dropped.
At about half past four o'clock, two students at the west end of College Hall, on the fourth floor, were awakened and saw a fiery glow reflected in their transom.
"Oh, then you are the sneak who was spying over our transom last night, eh?" said Frank, with a glance at Gill that made him quail. "Search him, officer get that bracelet," vociferated Gill. "He stole it from my uncle." "Come with me, young man," ordered the officer, extending a hand to seize Frank's arm. "Hold on," spoke up Ritchie suddenly, stepping in between the two.
They were of the thick, hard variety known in New England as "Boston" crackers. He took out one and weighed it in his hand. It made a very proper missile. With a single jerk of his arm he scaled the cracker through the open transom. There was a slight scuffle within, following the cracker's fall. He paused a moment and then threw a second and a third.
"I, Ebenezer Transom, of Compton Burrows, in the parish of Compton, yeoman, being of sound wit and health, and willing, though a sinner, to give my account to God, do hereby make my last will and testament." "Let be, I tell you!" But 'Lizabeth had snatched the paper from him. For a moment the devil in his eye seemed to meditate violence.
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