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"There's a big meeting of the bankers here to-night," remarked the other. "It's not supposed to be known, so don't mention it. How do you do, Mr. Ward?" he added, to a man who went past. "That's David Ward." "Ah," said Montague. Ward was known in the Street by the nickname of Waterman's "office-boy."
A boat bumped against the side of the steamer, and Mr. Green, looking round, observed the long form of Joe scrambling over the side. His appearance betokened alarm and haste, and Mr. Green, after a brief remark on the extravagance, not to say lordliness, of a waterman's skiff when a hail would have taken the ship's boat to him, demanded to know what was the matter.
At noon to Sheriff Waterman's to dinner, all of us men of the office in towne, and our wives, my Lady Carteret and daughters, and Ladies Batten, Pen, and my wife, &c., and very good cheer we had and merry; musique at and after dinner, and a fellow danced a jigg; but when the company begun to dance, I came away lest I should be taken out; and God knows how my wife carried herself, but I left her to try her fortune.
More than once as he walked his thoughts recurred to the scene at the Waterman's Rest. They were a rough, villainous-looking set, these members of the crew of the Good Intent! Of course, as supercargo he would not come into close contact with them; and Mr.
A boat was provided to bring her on shore, but she telling the men some plausible stories that her husband was not the man they represented him to be, one of the watermen having stripped off his clothes in order to row, and there being a great many honest fellows in the boat, they assisted her in putting on waterman's clothes, which as soon as done, she fairly got away from them, and came and acquainted Doyle that Hawkins was in town, and how she had been in danger.
"Yes, sir," replied Tom. "Tell us where." Whereupon Tom told of Waterman's association with him in Brunford, and of the conversations he had had with the prisoner. "I didn't quite understand at the time," said Tom, "why he seemed so sure of the Germans getting the best of it. He seemed to be glad when he told me of the tremendous strength of the German army, and the preparations they had made.
Bascom of the Empire Bank. He's Waterman's man." "You can imagine from that list that there's something big going on," Bates muttered; and he spelled the names of several other bankers, heads of the most important institutions in Wall Street. "Talking about Stewart," spelled out Rodney. "That's ancient history," muttered Bates. "He's a dead one." "P-r-i-c-e," spelled Rodney.
It's on Randy Paine's plantation King's Crest." "Then you've been there?" "A thousand times with Randy." "I thought it was Waterman's. We shan't be jailed as trespassers, shall we?" "No. But how could you tell your man to have tea for us when you didn't know that I'd be willing?" "But I did know " A little silence, then "How?" "Because when I put my mind on a thing I usually get my way."
He of them who declares himself recreant, should, d n him, be restricted to muddy ale, and the patronage of the Waterman's Company. I promise you, that many a pretty fellow has been mortally wounded with a quibble or a carwitchet at the Mermaid, and sent from thence, in a pitiable estate, to Wit's hospital in the Vintry, where they languish to this day amongst fools and aldermen."
"Ay, ay, sir," returned the man. He looked long after the boy as he walked away. "Supercargo!" he muttered. "Diggle! I may be wrong, but " Desmond had come through Southwark and across Clapham and Wimbledon Common, thus approaching the Waterman's Rest from the direction of Kingston.
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