ONE:The tender is almost thereoh! gasped Sandy, the seaplane must be rammed by the tender!With a fine-tooth comb! Dick broke in. We did make one big discovery, though.
TWO:X.The hydroplane boat? Sandy broke in to ask.
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ONE:On a fine Sunday morning in June the triumphant general rode into a supply camp twelve miles north of the line, and spoke to the officer in command. "Nice morning, Colonel," he said. And then his quick eyes spied the most desirable thing in all the camp. It was a tin wash basin set on a potato box. The triumphant general dismounted, and washed his face.During this period a vast empire was beginning to unfold itself in the East Indies, destined to produce a vast trade, and pour a perfect mine of wealth into Great Britain. The victories of Clive, Eyre Coote, and others, were telling on our commerce. During the early part of this period this effect was slow, and our exports to India and China up to 1741 did not average more than 148,000 per annum in value. Bullion, however, was exported to pay expenses and to purchase tea to an annual amount of upwards of half a million. Towards the end of this period, however, our exports to India and China amounted annually to more than half a million; and the necessity for the export of bullion had sunk to an annual demand for less than 100,000. The amount of tea imported from China during this period rose from about 140,000 pounds annually to nearly 3,000,000 pounds annuallyan enormous increase.
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TWO:That means that Jeff is innocent and has made friends with Sandy; but where is the woman?
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FORE:It appeared that Landor was accused of cowardice, and that his name was handled with the delicate sarcasm usual with Western journalismas fine and pointed as a Stone-age axe.They were high among the mountains, and here and there in the shadows of the rocks and pines were patches of snow, left even yet from the winter. By all the signs the trail was already more than half a day old.
FORE:It dawned upon Cairness that this was rather more than a military machine after all, that he had underestimated it.
FORE:[Pg 87]Sandy, dashing toward the hangar, correctly supposing Dick had called from its smaller doorway, did not see Jeff emerge from the old house and start on a run in the same direction.
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FORE:The confederacy of Spain, Austria, and Sweden against England greatly encouraged the Pretender and his party. His agents were active on almost every coast in Europe, under the able direction of Atterbury. But there were two new allies whom James acquired at this time who did him little service; these were Lord North and the Duke of Wharton. They went over to the Continent, and not only openly avowed themselves as friends of the Pretender, but renounced Protestantism and embraced Popery. Lord North, however, found himself so little trusted at the Pretender's Court, notwithstanding his apostasy, that he went to Spain, entered its service, and there continued till his death, in 1734. Wharton also arrived at Madrid, where he fell in with a congenial spirit. This was Ripperda, the renegade Dutchman, now created a Duke and made Prime Minister of Spain. He had lately returned from a mission to Vienna, and was as full of foolish boastings as Wharton himself. He told the officers of the garrison at Barcelona on landing, that the Emperor would bring one hundred and fifty thousand men into the field; that Prince Eugene had engaged for as many more within six months of the commencement of a war; that in that case France would be pillaged on all sides, the King of Prussia, whom he was pleased to call the Grand Grenadier, would be chased from his country in a single campaign, and King George out of both Hanover by the Emperor, and Great Britain by the Pretender; that so long as he was in authority there should never be peace between France and Spain. Yet to Mr. Stanhope he declared that though he had talked both in Vienna and Spain in favour of the Pretender, he was, nevertheless, as sincerely attached to the interests of his Britannic Majesty as one of his own subjects; that he would prove this on the first opportunity, and that he only talked as he did to please their Catholic majesties,[55] and to avoid being suspected as a traitor, and falling into the hands of the Inquisition, which he knew kept a sharp eye on him as a recent convert.
Jeff, the so-called Mr. Everdail, and the pilot and passenger of the seaplane, as well as the presumably injured man whom they had not seenall these were members of an international band of robbers, Sandy claimed.You cant set down if they do, objected Sandy, his confidence in the mans possible guilt shaken by his knowledge of Jeffs war record. I dont see, for my part, why Jeff didnt use the amphibian in the first place!With the glare from the dropped light picking out things in sharp silhouette, they saw a man clamber out onto a pontoon and rescue the floating prize.All right, then. You can tell your other comradeLarry, you said you call him, Dick. Ill leave a note for Jeff. Now Ill go on up to the house and write it and make a couple of telephone callsand then Ill drop out of thingsbut youll hear from me off and on till we get those emeralds safe in our hands. Theneven while were waitingif you can get your parents consent to stay, which I think can be arranged by JeffLarry can take some flying navigationyou, Dick, can study engines and construction, or navigationwhatever you like."I wonder, my dear, what sort of air you breathed in your mother's restaurant at meal times?"