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"Ah!" said Mrs. Cartwright, "I want her back! One must hide one's hurt,
but to hide it is hard--" She pulled herself up and added: "Will you
send a cablegram?"
"I think not. The girl is proud and as wild as a hawk. She thinks she
has humiliated us, and if she's startled, she'll probably run away."
"You don't think she... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Cartwright's mouth got hard and his mustache bristled. When he was moved
his urbanity vanished and his talk was very blunt.
"We'll let Grace's notion go. My form is not my step-children's, but I
try to moderate my remarks about women. We'll admit Grace is a woman,
although I sometimes doubt. Anyhow, you are not a man;... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Barbara's coming back with him," Grace remarked. "In some ways, her
return will be awkward, but perhaps she ought to come."
Mortimer gave her a surprised glance. "This was not your view!"
"Oh, well, I have been thinking. Barbara is rash and very young. In
Canada, she would be free from all control, and one must not w... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"But his needing help is not probable. He's managing owner of the line."
Mortimer smiled. "He gets a commission on the boat's earnings, but does
not hold many shares. Then the fleet is small and the boats don't earn
very much. Things are not going smoothly and some shareholders would
like to put Cartwright off the Boa... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Cartwright saw his wife had forgotten him, and turning to the others
with a commanding gesture, drove them and the servants from the hall.
When they had gone he gave Mrs. Cartwright a smile.
"I've brought her back," he said. "Not altogether an easy job. Barbara's
ridiculous, but she can fight."
He went off and Barbara... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Although I wanted him to go, I did not send him," Mrs. Cartwright
replied. "He went because he loves you, but we can talk about this
again." She hesitated for a moment and went on: "It was not long, I
think, before you found Shillito was a thief? Mr. Lister's story
indicated this."
A wave of color came to Barbara's s... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"You must not be unjust. I imagine he thought to meet him would
embarrass you."
"It would have embarrassed me, but Harry would not have known," Barbara
declared. "If I have been a fool, I can pay. Still I ought to have
stayed in Canada. Father's obstinate and I wanted to come home, but
things will be harder than at Mo... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister said he thought not, and Hyslop replied that it did not matter.
Barbara would take him up a grassy ridge and the others would meet them
at the top. A rattle of nailed boots indicated that he was going off and
Lister turned and glanced at Barbara. She had sat down on an inclined
slab and her figure and face, in ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"I was forced. All the same, I think Harry's plan was good."
"He went away a few days before I arrived!" Barbara remarked.
Lister thought he saw where she led and knitted his brows. He was on
awkward ground and might say too much, but to say nothing might be
worse.
"Harry's a good sort and I expect he pulled out becau... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister was puzzled and said nothing, but Barbara went on: "Perhaps some
girls like this; others don't, and now and then rebel. We feel we're
human, we want to live. Adventure calls us, as it calls you. We want to
front life's shocks and storms; unsatisfied curiosity drives us on. Then
perhaps romance comes and all the... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Then, it was in order that I might understand this you sent the stone
down the crag?"
"I think it was," said Lister. "I hope I have, so to speak, cleared the
ground."
Barbara gave him a puzzling smile. "You're rather obvious, but it's
important you mean to be nice. However, I expect the others are waiting
for us and ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Then Lister's foot slipped and he could get no hold for his hands. His
smooth boots drew a greasy line across the wet slab as he slid down.
Perhaps the risk was not very daunting, but he knew he must not roll
down far. At the bottom of the slab he brought up with his foot braced
against a knob, and he saw Barbara comi... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"No," said Barbara, in a regretful voice. "He's really a good cragsman
and knows exactly how far he can go. When he starts an awkward climb he
reckons up all the obstacles and is ready to get round them when they
come. The plan's good. People like Mortimer don't get stuck."
"It's possible, but I expect they miss somet... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
CHAPTER IV
A DISSATISFIED SHAREHOLDER
Cartwright had read the morning's letters and the _Journal of Commerce_,
and finding nothing important, turned his revolving chair to the fire.
He had been forced to wait for a train at a draughty station, and his
feet were cold. His office occupied an upper floor of an old-fashio... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
By and by the bookkeeper came in and filed some letters. Gavin's hair
was going white, and he had been with Cartwright's since he was a boy.
He was fat, red-faced, and humorous, although his humor was not refined.
Gavin liked to be thought something of a sport, but Cartwright knew he
was staunch.
"You imagine Mrs. Sea... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
One must pay for old extravagances, and the bills were coming in; Mrs.
Seaton's expected call was an example. Ellen was a widow, but before she
married Seaton, Cartwright knew she counted him her lover. They were
alike in temperament; rash, strong-willed, and greedy for all that gave
life a thrill. In fact, Ellen was ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"You had better take the box," said Cartwright. "I sent for a few when
_Titania_ went to the Levant. One understands they're hard to get in
England. But I have something else you like. If you will wait a
moment--"
He rang a bell and Gavin entered, carrying two small glasses, a bottle,
and some biscuits. When he went o... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"I want to buy, but it's a small, private company and the people
stipulate I must take a large block. I have not enough money."
Cartwright doubted, but her plan was obvious. "When trade is slack, one
ought to be careful about investing in a private company that pays eight
per cent," he said. "After all, it might be pr... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"I can't buy," he said. "I must trust my luck and fighting power.
Although we have had stormy meetings and rates are bad, the line is
running yet."
"If you haven't enough money, why don't you ask your wife? She's rich
and hasn't risked much of her capital in the line."
"That is so," Cartwright agreed. Ellen meant to b... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Cartwright felt the house was a snug harbor where he could rest when he
was too old and battered to front the storms that had for some time been
gathering, and sitting by the fire one evening, he speculated about the
rocks and shoals ahead. All the same, the time to run for shelter was
not yet; he thought he could rid... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
It was plain that Clara had been pondering. Mortimer _had_ talked and
somebody who was not Cartwright's friend had informed him. Cartwright
was tempted to let his wife do as she wanted: Clara owned shares in the
line that he had let her buy when freights were good and she had
afterwards refused to sell. Now, however, ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"They ought to be turned out! A blundering lot! They've let a good fleet
down."
Hyslop smiled. He had pale and watery blue eyes that generally annoyed
Cartwright. "An awkward doctrine, sir! If all the steamship directors
who might have used the shareholders' money to better advantage were
called to account, I imagine ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
The man at the piano signed to Barbara, who got up and began to sing.
The song was modern and the melody not marked. Cartwright liked the
Victorian ballads with tunes that haunted one and obvious sentiment, but
because Barbara sang he gave the words and music his languid interest.
After all, the thing was clever. Ther... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Mr. Lister wants to go a voyage," she said to Cartwright. "I suggested
you might help him to get a post on board a ship."
"I imagine he did not suggest you should persuade me?"
"Certainly not! He refused to bother you," Barbara replied and, with
some hesitation, added: "However, perhaps in a sense we ought to help."
... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Cartwright saw and sympathized. He remembered how adventure called when
he was young. Well, he had got adventure, but perhaps not the kind
Lister seemed to enjoy. Anyhow, he had not started off with an empty
wallet to look about the world.
"How much does your roll amount to?" he asked with a bluntness he
sometimes use... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
By and by his bookkeeper came in.
"Direct cablegram from Davies, sir."
Cartwright took the form and frowned. The message was not from Rimouski
and ran: "Delayed Peter; passing Quebec."
"Awkward, sir," Gavin remarked sympathetically.
"Very awkward," said Cartwright. "Davies needed all the time he's lost.
It will be a n... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
By and by a merchant he knew pulled up a chair opposite. "Very cold and
slippery outside," he remarked. "I nearly came down on the floating
bridge, and looked in for a drink. A jar shakes a man who carries
weight."
"What were you doing on the floating bridge?" Cartwright asked.
"I went to the stage to meet some Canadi... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
The work was nervous, because dangerous shoals bordered the channels and
Davies must let the steamer go. He knew when a risk must be run and the
engineer was staunch. The trouble was, _Oreana's_ boilers were bad; the
money Cartwright durst not spend on repairs would have been a good
investment now. Still, the old boat... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"In the afternoon I went to Mrs. Oliver's and met Mrs. Seaton," she said
presently. "She talked to me for some time. At the beginning, I thought
it strange!"
"It's pretty obvious that you don't like her," Cartwright remarked.
"Ellen Seaton is not my sort, but I understand she was a friend of
yours."
"She was my friend... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"What price were you to pay?" he asked.
Mrs. Cartwright told him, and he laughed. "If Ellen found a buyer at a
number of shillings less, she would be lucky! Well, I understand you
didn't take her offer?"
"I did not," said Mrs. Cartwright tranquilly. "When I wanted to buy some
shares not long since, you did not approve... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Now and then Gavin gave his employer a keen glance. Cartwright's lips
were rather blue and the lines round his eyes were sharply drawn. His
white mustache stuck out, and one got a hint of stubbornness, but except
for this his face was inscrutable. Although Gavin thought Cartwright
would score again, he was anxious. No... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"We must refuse," said Cartwright, with quiet firmness. "A frightened
committee would probably urge a drastic re-construction scheme, the
writing off much of our capital, and perhaps winding up the line. When
rates are bad and cargo's scarce, one must take a low price for ships;
our liabilities are large, and I imagin... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
When all was quiet, he took the notes Gavin handed him, glanced at the
paper, and put it down. Then, speaking in a steady voice, he gave the
report of the year's work and talked about the balance sheet. He was
frank but not apologetic, and claimed, in view of the difficulties, that
the directors had well guarded the c... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
A number of the others applauded and she continued: "Our directors have
worked very hard. To manage ships that don't pay must be tiring and
perhaps we oughtn't to ask them to bear the heavy strain. Could we not
choose somebody with fresh ideas to help?"
"That's what we want!" said one. "The Board needs new blood!"
The... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Cartwright saw the shareholders were moved and the time for him to speak
had come. He got up and fronted a doubting and antagonistic audience.
His face was inscrutable, but he looked dignified.
"We have heard angry criticism and hints about slackness," he began.
"Some of you have suggested rejecting the report, a comm... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
The shareholders were moved and one heard murmurs of sympathy. Boldness
paid, and Cartwright saw he was recovering his shaken power, but it was
not all good acting. To some extent, he was sincere. He got his breath
and resumed:
"I don't urge you with a selfish object to let me keep my post; I'd be
relieved to let it g... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
She could get a train in a few minutes, but she would be forced to wait
at a station on the Cheshire side, and there was not another train for
some time. She had bought the things she needed and did not know what to
do. One could pass half an hour at a café; but Mrs. Cartwright did not
like her to go to a café; alone ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"I'm lucky!" he remarked, and his satisfaction was comforting. "It's
long since I have seen you."
"You know our house," Barbara rejoined.
"Oh, well," he said with a twinkle, "when I last came, you talked to me
for about two minutes and then left me to play billiards with your
brother. He was polite, but in Canada we p... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
They got down at a station by a muddy dock-road. Ponderous lorries with
giant horses rolled out of the gloom between stacks of goods; wet cattle
were entangled in the press of traffic, and Barbara was relieved when
Lister pushed back a sliding door. Then she stopped for a moment, half
daunted by the noise and bustle, ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Our mess-room," he said. "I expect it's the quietest spot on board the
ship."
He pushed the door open and stopped. The small room was bright with
electric light and a young man and woman sat opposite each other at the
table. The man's uniform was stained by oil; the girl was pretty and
fashionably dressed, but Barbar... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Miss Grant stopped him and asked Barbara's views about curtains. She had
some patterns, and while they contrasted the material and the prices the
door opened and a greasy, red-haired fellow gave the group a benevolent
grin.
"Was thim doughnuts all right?" he inquired.
"I've had better, but you've made some worse, Mike... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Barbara laughed. "I didn't play up; I liked the people. The excursion
was delightful; I've enjoyed it all."
Lister saw she was sincere and thrilled. He had begun to think he ought
not to have suggested the adventure, but he was not sorry now; Barbara
was not bothered by ridiculous conventions. She talked gayly while t... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"No, sir. I didn't expect to meet Miss Hyslop. I was talking about the
boat and thought Miss Hyslop might like to see her."
Cartwright turned and the electric light touched his face. He looked
thoughtful, but somehow Lister imagined he was not thinking about his
step-daughter.
"Oh, well!" he said, as if the matter wer... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"I don't know," he said. "You see, I may go back to the railroad soon."
He wondered whether Cartwright did see and thought he had remarked his
hesitation; the old fellow was very keen. Cartwright's look, however,
was inscrutable and for a few moments he said nothing. Then he picked up
some papers on his desk.
"Look me... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
An effort had been made to float _Arcturus_, but the salvors did not
know all Cartwright thought he knew. If his supposition were correct,
the wreck might be worth buying and one could, no doubt, buy her very
cheap. The boat had for some time lain half-buried in shifting sands at
the mouth of an African river.
The und... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"You're horribly logical," Barbara rejoined with a twinkle. "When we
started he didn't know I ought not to have gone. Mr. Lister is not like
you; he's very obvious. Of course, I did know, but I went!"
"I wonder why!" said Cartwright dryly.
"Sometimes you're keen, but you didn't remark, I meant to give you a
lead. Well... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"You really are keen!" Barbara rejoined.
"I was a little curious about what you said to Mr. Lister."
"Ah," said Cartwright, "I imagined something like this. I told him if he
wanted to see my family, he must come to the house."
Barbara looked thoughtful. "This was all? Was it worth while to tell him
to come to the offi... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Cartwright's eyes got bloodshot and he clenched his fist. He would very
much like to meet Shillito. His muscles were getting slack, but he had
not lost all his power; anyhow, he could talk. Well, the thing was
humiliating, but he must not get savage. When he let himself go he
suffered for it afterwards. Getting up, he... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"For one thing, they started the job on extravagant lines," Cartwright
replied. "They sent out two first-class tugs and a number of highly-paid
men; they ought to have hired negro laborers at the spot. The surf is
often bad, they could only work when it was calm, and while they were
doing nothing, wages mounted up. So... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Cartwright smiled. "I do know the goods were on the ship's manifest. How
much gold did the salvage company get?"
"Six boxes; but this was not all that was shipped."
"I imagine it's all that will be recovered!" Cartwright remarked.
The other looked hard at him, but his face was inscrutable and he went
on: "Well, I don'... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister's eyes sparkled. "Yes, sir. I've been looking for a chance like
this."
Cartwright studied him quietly. Lister's keenness was obvious; the young
fellow liked adventure, but Cartwright imagined this did not account for
all.
"From one point of view, I think the chance is pretty good," he said.
"If you can float th... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"I think you declared he was the man for an awkward job," he said.
Barbara looked at him rather hard. "Perhaps I did say so. You don't
imply you are sending Mr. Lister because you thought I'd like it?"
"Not at all," said Cartwright. "The thing's a business venture. Still
your statement carried weight. I admit your jud... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Hyslop said he would like to go, and would do so if it were necessary,
but to get away just then was awkward. Grace declared somebody must stop
to look after Cartwright and the house, and she imagined this was her
post. For all that, since she was older than Barbara, it was hard to see
her duty. Mrs. Cartwright did no... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
When he talked to the captain in the pilot-house, he was, on the whole,
satisfied. Brown's face was flushed and his voice was hoarse, but he
would pull himself together after he got to sea. Cartwright knew Brown's
habits when he gave him the job, although, in an important sense, the
job was Lister's. To trust the youn... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"I doubted if my step-father would bring me, but I really meant to
come," she said. "For one thing, I wanted to ask you--"
She hesitated, for it was hard to strike the right note. She had begun
to see there was something exciting and perhaps heroic about the
adventure. The handful of men had undertaken a big thing; th... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister smiled, but his voice betrayed him, although he thought he used
control.
"Very well! If it's possible for flesh and blood, we'll bring _Arcturus_
home. That's all. The thing's done with."
She gave him her hand, and kept the glove with the dark grease stain.
Then, seeing there was no more to be said, she looked ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
When Barbara reached the pierhead, _Terrier's_ engines began to throb.
The propeller churned the green water, and the tug bumped against the
wall. Gatemen shouted, the big tow-rope splashed and tightened with a
jerk, and the hulk began to move. Then the tug's bow crept round the
corner and swung off from the gates. Th... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"The boat's good," said Lister. "Engines a bit neglected, but they're
running smooth and cool, and she has power to shove her along.
Cartwright has an eye for a useful craft."
Brown nodded. "The old fellow has an eye for all that's useful; I reckon
he sees farther than any man I know. There's something encouraging abo... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
In the meantime he need not move about. It was like listening to an
orchestra of which he knew all the instruments, and he heard no jarring
notes. The harmony was good and the rhythm well marked. The clash and
clang rose and fell with a measured beat; but the smooth running of his
engines did not account for all Liste... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"A fierce night!" he remarked to Brown, who peered through the
spray-swept glass. "I reckon you'll want to slow down when we make
Carmel."
The house was dark, but Lister saw the captain turn. "I'm bothered,"
Brown admitted. "We ought to push on, but while we might tow the hulk
under, we can't tow her down channel. We ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Two dark figures, crouched on _Terrier's_ rail like animals ready to
spring, cut against the blaze. Brown was going alongside; anyhow, he was
going near enough for the men to jump, but the thing was horribly risky.
If the rolling hulk struck the tug planks and iron plates would be
beaten in; moreover the men must jump... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
For the most part, he was able to get control before the stern came
down. Moreover, he was not using full steam; to let her go would swamp
the boat and wash the men off the laboring hulk. Lister knew the rope
held because he felt the heavy drag. Although she rolled and plunged,
there was no life in _Terrier's_ movemen... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
CHAPTER II
THE WRECK
The night was calm, but now and then a faint, hot wind blew from the
shadowy coast, and rippling the water, brought a strange, sour smell.
Lister did not know the smell; Brown knew and frowned, for he had been
broken by the malaria that haunts West African river mouths. Heavy dew
dripped from the ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Four fathoms at spring tides, and a shifting channel!" Brown remarked,
quoting from a pilot-book. "The depth, however, varies with the wind,
and a stranger must use caution when entering the lagoon." He stopped,
and laughed as he resumed: "If this was a sober undertaking I'd steam
off and wait for daylight."
"I recko... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
The spray cloud got thick, and wavered with luminous tremblings when the
long rollers broke. They came up, spangled with green and gold flashes,
from astern, shook their fiery crests about the tug, and vanished ahead,
but one heard them crash. Lister thought the tug throbbed to the savage
concussion. He could not hear... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
In the morning, he put a greasy jacket over his pajamas and went on
deck. The land breeze had dropped and it was very calm. Vague trees
loomed in the fog that hid the beach; there was a belt of dull, heaving
water, and then the spray cloud closed the view. The air was heavy, the
men on deck moved slackly, and Lister's... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Lister and Brown went up the stairs and were received by a white man in
a big damp room. A lamp hung from a beam and the light touched the
patches of mildew on the discolored walls. There was not much furniture;
a few canvas chairs, a desk and a table. Flies crawled about the table
and hovered in a black swarm round t... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Brown indicated his glass, which still held some liquor, and Lister
refused politely. He noted that Montgomery knew their object and was
surprised, since he thought Cartwright had not talked much about the
undertaking. Then, although Montgomery was obviously ill, one felt he
tried to paint the coast in the darkest col... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
CHAPTER III
A FUEL PROBLEM
A few days after his visit to the factory, Lister sat one morning under
a tarpaulin they had stretched across the hulk. The paint on the canvas
smelt as if it burned, but the awning gave some shade and one could not
front the sun on the open deck. The sea breeze had not sprung up and
dazzlin... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"The fellow was generous with his liquor and his boy can mix a
cocktail," he remarked.
Brown grinned. "On the Coast, they're all generous with liquor.
Montgomery knows this; but I've a notion you are wondering whether he
knows me. I reckon not, but he knows the kind of skipper you generally
meet in the palm oil trade.... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"Starboard bunkers buried?" Brown resumed. "They were pretty full. When
she left Forcados she had a list to port, and they trimmed her by using
the coal on that side first. Well, it's awkward! I reckoned on getting
the fuel!"
"There is some coal on the port side," said Lister.
"If Cartwright's plan and notes are accur... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
The heat was almost unbearable, the reflections from the oily swell and
wet deck hurt one's eyes, and Lister noted that the deck did not dry
until the sea breeze began to blow. The wind brought a faint coolness
and drove back the smell, but the men's efforts presently got slack. The
labor was exhausting and one must w... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Signing the diver to go on, he followed him round the vessel's stern.
The sand on the other side was high and one could climb on board, but
Lister shrank from the dark alleyway that led to the engine-room. For
all that, he went in and saw the diver had opened the jambed door. When
he reached the ledge a flash from the... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"That will be long," Brown rejoined and pondered. "We must have coal,"
he resumed. "If I can't find another plan, you must take the tug to
Sierra Leone and bring a load; but we'll let it go just now. The first
thing is to hire some negro laborers, and as soon as I can leave the
wreck I'll try again."
CHAPTER IV
MONTGO... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"We want coal," said Lister and turned abruptly.
The pump jarred and stopped, the swollen suction pipe shrank, and the
splash of the discharge died away. For some time Lister was occupied and
when he restarted the engine and looked about again the steamer was
steering for the hulk. She was a small vessel, going light,... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"What about the coal?" he shouted.
The other leaned out from the rails and Lister, studying him with the
glasses, saw a small patch, like sticking plaster, on his forehead. The
side of his face was discolored, as if it were bruised, and frowning
savagely, he shook his fist.
"You can go to _Sar_ Leone or the next hotte... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"What's the matter with the captain?" Lister asked, although he thought
he knew.
"He's exhausted by his efforts and the worse for liquor," Montgomery
answered with a laugh. "On the whole, I think you had better let him
sleep. Perhaps you remarked that some of the glass is broken and two of
my chairs are smashed!"
List... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"You have not been long at the lagoon, but you're beginning to feel the
climate," the other remarked. "It's perhaps the unhealthiest spot on an
unhealthy coast, and a white man cannot work in the African sun.
However, you know why the salvage company threw up their contract. They
lost a number of their men and if you ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"On the whole, it wouldn't pay me to turn down Cartwright's job," he
said. "Two hundred pounds is not a very big wad, and if we can take the
boat home I reckon the salvage people would give me a good post. I must
wait until I'm satisfied the thing's impossible."
"When you are satisfied I'll have no object for engaging... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
It was plain the fellow meant to bother them as much as possible, but
since he had not owned the wrecked steamer his object was hard to see.
In the meantime, Lister let it go and concentrated on steering the boat
past the mud banks in the creek.
CHAPTER V
MONTGOMERY USES HIS POWER
Some time after Lister went to the fa... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Walking along the deck he found a white sailor sitting on the windlass
drum. The man did not move until Lister touched his arm.
"Did you hear something not very long since, Watson?"
"No, sir," said the other with a start. "Now and then a fish splashed
and she got her cable across the stem. Links rattled. That was all.... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"No savvy, sah. We done hear not'ing."
"I expect they were afraid to meddle," Brown remarked, and resumed: "Why
did you lib for stop?"
"We Accra boy; white man's boy. Them bushman him d--n fool too much. Run
in bush like monkey, without him clo'es."
Brown knitted his brows and then made a sign of resignation. "I recko... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"They've got something of the kind at _Sar_ Leone; I don't know about a
foundry," Brown replied. "Take Learmont to navigate, and start when you
like. We'll shift the hulk to leeward of the wreck and she ought to ride
out a south-east breeze."
Lister sailed a few days afterwards, and reaching Sierra Leone found
nobody ... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
At length, Learmont called him one morning to the bridge, and he leaned
slackly against the rails. His eyes were dull, and for some hours he had
breathed the fumes of burning tallow. A slide had given him trouble; he
could keep the metal cool. On the bridge, however, the air was keen and
sweet, and he felt the contras... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
CHAPTER VI
LISTER MEETS AN OLD ANTAGONIST
The hotel Catalina, half-way between Las Palmas harbor and the town, was
not crowded, and a number of the quests had gone to a ball at the
neighboring Metropole. Barbara, going out some time after dinner, found
the veranda unoccupied and sat down. Mrs. Cartwright was getting b... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
She knew now she had not loved Shillito. He had cunningly worked upon
her ignorance, discontent, and longing for romance. Illumination had
come on board the train, but although she had found him out and escaped,
she had afterwards felt herself humiliated and set apart from happy
girls who had nothing to hide. The humi... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"I had _found you out_. Had you been something of the man I thought, I
might have gone with you and helped to baffle the police; but you were
not. You were very dull and played a stupid part. When you thought you
had won and I was in your power, I knew you for a brute."
Shillito colored, but forced a smile. "Perhaps I... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"A Lopez boat sails for Havana in two or three days," Barbara
interrupted.
"That is so," Shillito agreed, smiling because he noted her relief. "The
trouble is, I haven't much money. Five hundred pounds would help me
along."
"You thought I would give you five hundred pounds?"
"Sure," said Shillito, coolly. "You're rich... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"You waste your arguments," she declared. "I will not give you money. If
you come back, I will tell the _mayordomo_ you are annoying me and he
must not let you in."
"The plan's not very clever," Shillito rejoined. "If I made trouble for
the hotel porters, the guests would wonder, and when people have nothing
to do but... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
A neighboring window rattled with the shock, the heavy tramp of their
feet shook the boards, and Barbara knew the noise would soon bring a
group of curious servants to the door; besides, all the guests had not
gone to the Metropole. Yet she could not meddle. The men's passions were
unloosed; they fought like savage an... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Barbara went from the window and sat down. She was horribly overstrained
and wanted to cry, but she began to laugh, and for some minutes could
not stop. She must get relief from the tension and, after all, in a
sense, the thing was humorous.
CHAPTER VII
BARBARA'S REFUSAL
In the morning Barbara went to the Catalina mol... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"May I join you for a few minutes?" he asked.
"Of course," she said graciously.
Lister sat down. The sailors had gone off, and except for an officer of
the _Commandancia_, nobody was about.
"I was going to the hotel to look for you. For one thing, I reckoned I
ought to apologize. When I came into the veranda and saw S... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Barbara studied him and was moved by pity and some other emotions. He
was very thin and his face was pinched. He looked as if he were
exhausted by the work she had sent him to do. Barbara admitted that she
had sent him. Before Cartwright planned the salvage undertaking she had
declared he would find Lister the man for... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
Barbara's color came and went, but she said quietly: "When you came to
the hotel in the evening you met Shillito!"
"I did," said Lister, with incautious passion. "If I had killed the
brute I'd have been justified! However, I threw him on to the aloe tub
and ran off. The thing was grotesquely humorous. A boy's fool tri... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"I'm not sorry you are boss," he said. "The Old Man is coming!"
A few minutes afterwards Cartwright got over the tug's rail. His face
was red, and he looked very stern.
"Why have you left the wreck?" he asked Lister.
"I came for some castings I couldn't get at Sierra Leone. The pump and
engine needed mending."
"Then w... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"I have studied the cargo-lists and plans of the holds, sir."
Cartwright nodded. "We'll find out presently if my notion how the boat
was lost is accurate," The cargo's another thing. There may have been
conspiracy between merchant and ship-owner; I don't know yet, but if it
was conspiracy, this would account for much.... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
He went off, but when the boat crossed the harbor he looked back at the
tug with twinkling eyes. Lister was honest and had not asked Barbara to
marry him until he saw some chance of his supporting a wife. Since
Barbara was rich, the thing was amusing. All the same, it was possible
the young fellow must wait. Barbara e... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"He doesn't know; I think I didn't want him to know," Barbara admitted
with some embarrassment.
"Shillito knew, but one learns caution," Cartwright remarked. "Well,
Shillito became somewhat of a nuisance, and I don't imagine you want him
to look us up again. I rather think I must get to work."
"I hate him!" said Barba... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"I think not," said Cartwright, dryly. "In fact, since I can get rid of
you for nothing, I doubt if it's worth the price of a cheap berth on
board the Lopez boat. However, I'll risk this, in order to save
bothering."
"Bluff! You can cut it out and get to business!"
"Very well. Your call at the Catalina didn't help you... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 | |
"On the whole, I don't think it is necessary," Cartwright remarked. "The
fellow is a dangerous scoundrel, but I don't know that it is my duty to
give you the bother extradition formalities would imply. Still you may
find him a nuisance if he stays long."
Don Ramon smiled. "I imagine he will not stay long! My post give... | Lister's Great Adventure | Bindloss, Harold | 1866 | 1945 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Salvage -- Fiction', 'Shipwrecks -- Fiction', 'Africa -- Fiction', 'Love stories'} | PG10076 |
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