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I saw you last night staring through the transom. Watch your step, Flint. I'm telling you." "But if she should happen to take a fancy to me, who shall say no?" "Hate yourself, eh? There was liquor on your breath last night. Did you bring some aboard?" "What's that to you?" "It's a whole lot to me, my bucko to me and to the rest of the boys.
Archie extracted Peter from his pocket and dropped him gently through the transom. As the days went by and he settled down at the Hotel Cosmopolis, Archie, looking about him and revising earlier judgments, was inclined to think that of all his immediate circle he most admired Parker, the lean, grave valet of Mr. Daniel Brewster.
"Soon as the Banbury crowd think we're fast asleep, you'll hear them come stealthily out into the corridor. They've fixed the transom over our door so it will swing open without a jar. One fellow will stand on a chair. The others will hand him up the nozzle of a hose running to the faucet in their room." "And we'll be Knights of the Bath I see," observed Frank.
The tension relaxed a moment later; the rod was free, and the shadowy object was gone from the window above. She had withdrawn to the far side of the room for the purpose of reading the message so marvellously delivered out of the night. He fancied her mounting a chair so that she could read by the dim light from the transom.
The swell of the sea was running landwards, and the 'send' of each great rolling wave, just on the point of breaking, would shoot the lifeboat forwards till her stem and iron forefoot would strike the transom and stern of the wreck with tremendous force.
Tie-wig. See Wig. Tradewind. See Winds. Transom. A beam across the stern-post to strengthen the after part of the ship. Traverse. To turn guns to the right or left in aiming. Wake. The track left by a ship. Warp. To move a vessel into another position by hauling upon a hawser attached usually to the heads of piles or posts of a wharf. To bring a ship about by putting the helm up.
As if a happy thought had struck him, he broke into a sudden burst of speed. He ran up the front steps three at a bound. He scratched at the side front doors with the fan-shaped transom above. He waited with ears pricked and wagging tail, nose to the crack of the door. For it was always interesting to speculate on who would open the doors on this particular morning.
"There's some one at that transom!" "Quick, see who it is?" Frank, Bob and Ned sprang to their feet as the latter gave the alarm, and Frank's words started them speedily into action. Bob, half crippled though he was, reached the door of the room first, tore it open and gained the corridor. "It was some one from the crowd next door," he reported. "I fancied I saw Gill Mace vanish into that room.
They appeared; and when Transom explained the affair, so far as consisted with his knowledge, Mr S told us that the two unfortunates in question were, one of them, a Guernsey man, and the other a man of colour, a native of St Vincent's, whom the President had promoted to the command of two Haytian ships that had been employed in carrying coffee to England; but on their last return voyage, they had introduced a quantity of base Birmingham coin into the Republic; which fact having been proved on their trial, they had been convicted of treason against the state, condemned, and were now under sentence of death; and the government being purely military, they were to be shot tomorrow morning.
Olive was smiling happily, even while her heart was filled with anxiety and many thoughts; so they sat there for some time in silence, then there came a tap on the door, and a sepulchral voice through the keyhole: "If you don't want the whole family to come swarming over the transom, you'd better come out and tell us what that tremendous secret is. Speak quick, a single word."
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