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Updated: August 24, 2024
It supported its own life; hundreds of black fishing-boats and some large vessels leaned this way and that, high and dry on the mud, like flies stuck on a window-pane, and up on the river, whose waters were now flowing from the sea to the land, men came in dingeys, not rowing, but bending their bodies indolently and without effort, because they were back-watering with the tide, so that their swift advance looked as if it were made easy by sorcery.
Pleasure yachts dropped their anchors in the cove around the headland from the Patriarch's cottage and their dingeys brought women decked out de rigeur in middy blouses and sailor collars, and nattily attired gentlemen whose only claim to seamanship was the clothes, or rather, the costumes that they wore.
So presently the Adventurer's tender was lifted off the chocks and put overboard and after hasty toilets the boys piled into it and the two dingeys, each loaded to the limit, set off for the Follow Me.
Jack Smith's been in it. I'm going to send him ahead. Take a look for the landing boats down by the water." Billings disappeared on the instant and a moment later rejoined his chief. "Everything's O.K.," he announced. "The men have landed and are standing by for instructions." "Tell them to carry the dingeys clear of the tide and join me here," Slade directed.
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