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I was lookin' for that, though, and by the time the first two of 'em struck the door I was on the other side with the key turned. Riot? Well say, you'd thought I'd pinched the only job in New York! They kicked on the door and yelled through the transom and got themselves all worked up.
"Excuse me," I said to Mr S , "there is some one in the piazza wanting me." I rose. "Are you Captain Transom?" said the man. "No, I am not. There is the Captain; do you want him?" "If you please, sir," said the man. I called my superior officer into the narrow dark piazza. "Well, my man," said Transom, "what want you with me?"
Look out, Transom; Tom Cringle, look out; for my part, I shall dive through the door, and take my chance." "No use in that," said Don Ricardo; "the two round openings there at the west end of the chapel, open on a dry shelf, from which the ground slopes easily upward to the house; let us put the ladies through them, and then we males can shift for ourselves as we best may."
It was ajar, and they went in. The commander of the schooner sat on the edge of his berth. They could see each other dimly in the faint light that entered through the transom over the door. Captain Hamilton had drawn the blind at the window. "Well, what's up?" he murmured. Drew wasted no time, but in whispers repeated the conversation he had overheard between Bingo and the mate.
With axes and saws he and his crew set to work, but the upper transom beam resisted all their efforts. "We must blow out some ports," exclaimed the captain. "Send the firemen here." A gang of men with buckets were quickly on the spot. The guns were pointed aft. "Fire!" cried the captain.
Albert was astonished and troubled. "How did Labe know about it?" he demanded. "He heard it all. He couldn't help hearin'." "But he couldn't have heard. The door to the private office was shut." "Yes, but the window at the top the transom one, you know was wide open.
The Wentworth mansion was one of the largest and most dignified houses on the fine old square a big, double mansion. The door, with its large, fan-shaped transom and side-windows, reminded Keith somewhat of the hall door at Elphinstone, so that he had quite a feeling of old association as he tapped with the eagle knocker. The hall was not larger than at Elphinstone, but was more solemn, and Keith had never seen such palatial drawing-rooms. They stretched back in a long vista. The heavy mahogany furniture was covered with the richest brocades; the hangings were of heavy crimson damask. Even the walls were covered with rich crimson damask-satin. The floor was covered with rugs in the softest colors, into which, as Keith followed the solemn servant, his feet sank deep, giving him a strange feeling of luxuriousness. A number of fine pictures hung on the walls, and richly bound books lay on the shirting tables amid pieces of rare bric-
"Very well, my dear, you may spend as much time as you like at it; but if I peep over the transom, or listen through a crack in the door, you mustn't scold. I don't know that I can wait much longer to find out what it is." "No, no! You're not to come near the third story," protested Grace. "We shall nail down the transom and stuff the keyhole with soap if you do."
Now that I had time to look at her attentively I saw that her masts and sails were in her, laid fore and aft the thwarts, together with six long oars, or sweeps; she bore, deeply cut in her transom, the words "Black Prince Liverpool"; there were six water breakers in her bottom; and, huddled up in all sorts of attitudes eloquent of extremest suffering, there lay, stretched upon and doubled over the thwarts, and in the bottom of the boat, no less than fifteen men whether living or dead it was difficult for the moment to say.
It must be confessed that Clitheroe had enjoyed himself in the society of these old comrades you would recognize most of them were he to name them; but tonight, or rather this early morning he had begun to moralize, as he peered down the transom upon the half-shadowy forms of those feasters who had fallen by the way.
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