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Updated: June 28, 2025
Now, they were not as big as the racing yachts and they were loaded down with all the stores for a long salt trip their holds full of salt, for one thing and yet they made about as good time to Iceland as that yachtsman made to Queenstown. And they weren't driving their vessels either they don't drive on the way out. It's only coming home that they try to make passages.
And in the middle of this pother he continued to offer lucid and surprising explanations to deafened ears until his superior officer, excessively smart and looking like a cross between a cavalryman and a yachtsman, arrived on the scene swinging a cane. It was natural that after this we should visit some auto-cannons expressly constructed for bringing down aeroplanes.
In the strengthening sunlight of rising morning the brigantine would not have appealed very strongly to a landsman, or even to a yachtsman. As Barry discovered later, at breakfast, Little was sadly disappointed at the lack of polished brass-work, the bareness of the paint, the all-round creakiness of the ancient fabric.
Errington generally dismissed all tales of adventure as mere exaggerations of heated fancy; and, had he read in some book, of a respectable nineteenth-century yachtsman having such an interview with a madman in a sea-cavern, he would have laughed at the affair as an utter improbability, though he could not have explained why he considered it improbable.
So they stole away through the sleeping house, and presently we heard the front door close. Mr. van Buren and I were alone together. He was good about cheering me up, saying he had too much faith in his friend's courage and skill as a yachtsman to be very anxious, though the delay was odd. Then, suddenly he broke out with a strange question.
But the first time he addressed the waiter sharply as `steward' we knew him at once for a sailor as well as a yachtsman. Presently he had occasion to reprove that same waiter for the slovenly manner in which the dinner was served. He did it with considerable energy and then turned to us.
I said, wondering if her suspicions rested upon that mysterious yachtsman, Philip Hornby, the man to whom she was engaged. "Yes, I would beg of you to do your utmost in secret to endeavor to discover the body of the second victim. It is a woman of that I am certain. Find her, and we shall then be able to bring the crime home to the assassin."
"I am interested in navigation, to the slight extent possible to a mere yachtsman: may I join you?" interposed Christobal. "Oh, yes," said the captain off-handedly. Elsie repressed the smile on her lips. Did the worthy doctor fear developments if this harmless map-making progressed in his absence?
I believe it's the polis. His words were unheeded, for the figures below drew apart and a young man came through them. His beautifully-shaped dark head was bare, and as he moved he unbuttoned his oilskins and showed the trim dark-blue garb of the yachtsman. He walked confidently up the stairs, an odd elegant figure among his heavy companions. "Good afternoon, Alexis," he said in English.
See you again, Captain;" and with a friendly nod she left the somewhat chagrined yachtsman. When Captain Poland had parked his car he took a short cut along a path that led through a little clump of bushes. Midway he heard voices. In an instant he recognized them as those of Horace Carwell and Harry Bartlett.
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