Within the period of a single hour, then, he had ransomed4 his luggage at St. Pancras, caused it to be loaded upon a four-wheeler and transferred to a neighboring hotel of evil flavor but moderate tariff5, where he engaged a room for a week, ordered an immediate6 breakfast, and retired7 with his belongings8 to his room; he had shaved and changed his clothes, selecting a serviceable suit of heavy tweeds, stout10 shoes, a fore-and-aft cap and a negligée shirt of a deep shade calculated at least to seem clean for a long time; finally, he had devoured11 his bacon and eggs, gulped12 down his coffee and burned his mouth, and, armed with a stout stick, set off hotfoot in the still dim glimmering13 of early day.
By this time his cash capital had dwindled14 to the sum of two pounds, ten shillings, eight-pence, and would have been much less had he paid for his lodging15 in advance. But he considered his trunks ample security for the bill, and dared not wait the hour when shopkeepers begin to take down shutters16 and it becomes possible to realize upon one's jewelry17. Besides which, he had never before been called upon to consider the advisability of raising money by pledging personal property, and was in considerable doubt as to the right course of procedure in such emergency.
At King's Cross Station on the Underground an acute disappointment awaited him; there, likewise, he learned something about London. A sympathetic bobby informed him that no trains would be running until after five-thirty, and that, furthermore, no busses would begin to ply18 until half after seven.
"It's tramp it or cab it, then," mused19 the young man mournfully, his longing9 gaze seeking a nearby cab-rank—just then occupied by a solitary20 hansom, driver somnolent21 on the box. "Officer," he again addressed the policeman, mindful of the English axiom: "When in doubt, ask a bobby."—"Officer, when's high-tide this morning?"
The bobby produced a well-worn pocket-almanac, moistened a massive thumb, and rippled22 the pages.
"London Bridge, 'igh tide twenty minutes arfter six, sir," he announced with a glow of satisfaction wholly pardonable in one who combines the functions of perambulating almanac, guide-book, encyclopedia23, and conserver of the peace.
Kirkwood said something beneath his breath—a word in itself a comfortable mouthful and wholesome24 and emphatic25. He glanced again at the cab and groaned26: "O Lord, I just dassent!" With which, thanking the bureau of information, he set off at a quick step down Grey's Inn Road.
The day had closed down in brilliance27 upon the city—and the voice of the milkman was to be heard in the land—when he trudged28, still briskly if a trifle wearily, into Holborn, and held on eastward29 across the Viaduct and down Newgate Street; the while addling30 his weary wits with heart-sickening computations of minutes, all going hopelessly to prove that he would be late, far too late even presupposing the unlikely. The unlikely, be it known, was that the Alethea would not attempt to sail before the turn of the tide.
For this was his mission, to find the Alethea before she sailed. Incredible as it may appear, at five o'clock, or maybe earlier, on the morning of the twenty-second of April, 1906, A.D., Philip Kirkwood, normally a commonplace but likable young American in full possession of his senses, might have been seen (and by some was seen) plodding31 manfully through Cheapside, London, England, engaged upon a quest as mad, forlorn, and gallant32 as any whose chronicle ever inspired the pen of a Malory or a Froissart. In brief he proposed to lend his arm and courage to be the shield and buckler of one who might or might not be a damsel in distress33; according as to whether Mrs. Hallam had spoken soothly of Dorothy Calendar, or Kirkwood's own admirable faith in the girl were justified34 of itself.
Proceeding35 upon the working hypothesis that Mrs. Hallam was a polished liar36 in most respects, but had told the truth, so far as concerned her statement to the effect that the gladstone bag contained valuable real property (whose ownership remained a moot37 question, though Kirkwood was definitely committed to the belief that it was none of Mrs. Hallam's or her son's): he reasoned that the two adventurers, with Dorothy and their booty, would attempt to leave London by a water route, in the ship, Alethea, whose name had fallen from their lips at Bermondsey Old Stairs.
Kirkwood's initial task, then, would be to find the needle in the haystack—the metaphor38 is poor: more properly, to sort out from the hundreds of vessels39, of all descriptions, at anchor in midstream, moored41 to the wharves42 of 'long-shore warehouses43, or in the gigantic docks that line the Thames, that one called Alethea; of which he was so deeply mired44 in ignorance that he could not say whether she were tramp-steamer, coastwise passenger boat, one of the liners that ply between Tilbury and all the world, Channel ferry-boat, private yacht (steam or sail), schooner45, four-master, square-rigger, barque or brigantine.
A task to stagger the optimism of any but one equipped with the sublime46 impudence47 of Youth! Even Kirkwood was disturbed by some little awe48 when he contemplated49 the vast proportions of his undertaking50. None the less doggedly51 he plugged ahead, and tried to keep his mind from vain surmises52 as to what would be his portion when eventually he should find himself a passenger, uninvited and unwelcome, upon the Alethea....
London had turned over once or twice, and was pulling the bedclothes over its head and grumbling53 about getting up, but the city was still sound asleep when at length he paused for a minute's rest in front of the Mansion54 House, and realized with a pang55 of despair that he was completely tuckered out. There was a dull, vague throbbing56 in his head; weights pressed upon his eyeballs until they ached; his mouth was hot and tasted of yesterday's tobacco; his feet were numb57 and heavy; his joints58 were stiff; he yawned frequently.
With a sigh he surrendered to the flesh's frailty59. An early cabby, cruising up from Cannon60 Street station on the off-chance of finding some one astir in the city, aside from the doves and sparrows, suffered the surprise of his life when Kirkwood hailed him. His face was blank with amazement61 when he reined62 in, and his eyes bulged63 when the prospective64 fare, on impulse, explained his urgent needs. Happily he turned out a fair representative of his class, an intelligent and unfuddled cabby.
"Jump in, sir," he told Kirkwood cheerfully, as soon as he had assimilated the latter's demands. "I knows precisely65 wotcher wants. Leave it all to me."
The admonition was all but superfluous66; Kirkwood was unable, for the time being, to do aught else than resign his fate into another's guidance. Once in the cab he slipped insensibly into a nap, and slept soundly on, as reckless of the cab's swift pace and continuous jouncing as of the sunlight glaring full in his tired young face.
He may have slept twenty minutes; he awoke faint with drowsiness67, tingling68 from head to toe from fatigue69, and in distress of a queer qualm in the pit of his stomach, to find the hansom at rest and the driver on the step, shaking his fare with kindly70 determination. "Oh, a' right," he assented71 surlily, and by sheer force of will made himself climb out to the sidewalk; where, having rubbed his eyes, stretched enormously and yawned discourteously72 in the face of the East End, he was once more himself and a hundred times refreshed into the bargain. Contentedly73 he counted three shillings into the cabby's palm—the fare named being one-and-six.
"The shilling over and above the tip's for finding me the waterman and boat," he stipulated74.
"Right-o. You'll mind the 'orse a minute, sir?"
Kirkwood nodded. The man touched his hat and disappeared inexplicably75. Kirkwood, needlessly attaching himself to the reins76 near the animal's head, pried77 his sense of observation open and became alive to the fact that he stood in a quarter of London as strange to him as had been Bermondsey Wall.
To this day he can not put a name to it; he surmises that it was Wapping.
Ramshackle tenements78 with sharp gable roofs lined either side of the way. Frowsy women draped themselves over the window-sills. Pallid80 and wasted parodies81 on childhood contested the middle of the street with great, slow drays, drawn82 by enormous horses. On the sidewalks twin streams of masculine humanity flowed without rest, both bound in the same direction: dock laborers83 going to their day's work. Men of every nationality known to the world (he thought) passed him in his short five-minute wait by the horse's head; Britons, brown East Indians, blacks from Jamaica, swart Italians, Polaks, Russian Jews, wire-drawn Yankees, Spaniards, Portuguese84, Greeks, even a Nubian or two: uniform in these things only, that their backs were bent85 with toil86, bowed beyond mending, and their faces stamped with the blurred87 type-stamp of the dumb laboring88 brute89. A strangely hideous90 procession, they shambled on, for the most part silent, all uncouth91 and unreal in the clear morning glow.
The outlander was sensible of some relief when his cabby popped hurriedly out of the entrance to a tenement79, a dull-visaged, broad-shouldered waterman ambling92 more slowly after.
"Nevvy of mine, sir," announced the cabby; "and a fust-ryte waterman; knows the river like a book, he do."
The nephew touched his forelock sheepishly.
"Thank you," said Kirkwood; and, turning to the man, "Your boat?" he asked with the brevity of weariness.
"This wye, sir."
At his guide's heels Kirkwood threaded the crowd and, entering the tenement, stumbled through a gloomy and unsavory passage, to come out at last upon a scanty93, unrailed veranda94 overlooking the river. Ten feet below, perhaps, foul95 waters purred and eddied96 round the piles supporting the rear of the building. On one hand a ladder-like flight of rickety steps descended97 to a floating stage to which a heavy rowboat lay moored. In the latter a second waterman was seated bailing98 out bilge with a rusty99 can.
"'Ere we are, sir," said the cabman's nephew, pausing at the head of the steps. "Now, where's it to be?"
The American explained tersely100 that he had a message to deliver a friend, who had shipped aboard a vessel40 known as the Alethea, scheduled to sail at floodtide; further than which deponent averred101 naught102.
The waterman scratched his head. "A 'ard job, sir; not knowin' wot kind of a boat she are mykes it 'arder." He waited hopefully.
"Ten shillings," volunteered Kirkwood promptly103; "ten shillings if you get me aboard her before she weighs anchor; fifteen if I keep you out more than an hour, and still you put me aboard. After that we'll make other terms."
The man promptly turned his back to hail his mate. "'Arf a quid, Bob, if we puts this gent aboard a wessel name o' Allytheer afore she syles at turn o' tide."
In the boat the man with the bailing can turned up an impassive countenance104. "Coom down," he clenched105 the bargain; and set about shipping106 the sweeps.
Kirkwood crept down the shaky ladder and deposited himself in the stern of the boat; the younger boatman settled himself on the midship thwart107.
"Ready?"
"Ready," assented old Bob from the bows. He cast off the painter, placed one sweep against the edge of the stage, and with a vigorous thrust pushed off; then took his seat.
Bows swinging down-stream, the boat shot out from the shore.
"How's the tide?" demanded Kirkwood, his impatience108 growing.
"On th' turn, sir," he was told.
For a long moment broadside to the current, the boat responded to the sturdy pulling of the port sweeps. Another moment, and it was in full swing, the watermen bending lustily to their task. Under their unceasing urge, the broad-beamed, heavy craft, aided by the ebbing109 tide, surged more and more rapidly through the water; the banks, grim and unsightly with their towering, impassive warehouses broken by toppling wooden tenements, slipped swiftly up-stream. Ship after ship was passed, sailing vessels in the majority, swinging sluggishly110 at anchor, drifting slowly with the river, or made fast to the goods-stages of the shore; and in keen anxiety lest he should overlook the right one, Kirkwood searched their bows and sterns for names, which in more than one case proved hardly legible.
The Alethea was not of their number.
In the course of some ten minutes, the watermen drove the boat sharply inshore, bringing her up alongside another floating stage, in the shadow of another tenement.—both so like those from which they had embarked111 that Kirkwood would have been unable to distinguish one from another.
In the bows old Bob lifted up a stentorian112 voice, summoning one William.
Recognizing that there was some design in this, the passenger subdued113 his disapproval114 of the delay, and sat quiet.
In answer to the third ear-racking hail, a man, clothed simply in dirty shirt and disreputable trousers, showed himself in the doorway115 above, rubbing the sleep out of a red, bloated countenance with a mighty116 and grimy fist.
"'Ello," he said surlily. "Wot's th' row?"
"'Oo," interrogated117 old Bob, holding the boat steady by grasping the stage, "was th' party wot engyged yer larst night, Bill?"
"Party name o' Allytheer," growled118 the drowsy119 one. "W'y?"
"Party 'ere's lookin' for 'im. Where'll I find this Allytheer?"
"Best look sharp 'r yer won't find 'im," retorted the one above. "'E was at anchor off Bow Creek120 larst night."
Kirkwood's heart leaped in hope. "What sort of a vessel was she?" he asked, half rising in his eagerness.
"Brigantine, sir."
"Thank—you!" replied Kirkwood explosively, resuming his seat with uncalculated haste as old Bob, deaf to the amenities121 of social intercourse122 in an emergency involving as much as ten-bob, shoved off again.
And again the boat was flying down in midstream, the leaden waters, shot with gold of the morning sun, parting sullenly123 beneath its bows.
The air was still, heavy and tepid124; the least exertion125 brought out beaded moisture on face and hands. In the east hung a turgid sky, dull with haze126, through which the mounting sun swam like a plaque127 of brass128; overhead it was clear and cloudless, but besmirched129 as if the polished mirror of the heavens had been fouled130 by the breath of departing night.
On the right, ahead, Greenwich Naval131 College loomed132 up, the great gray-stone buildings beyond the embankment impressively dominating the scene, in happy relief against the wearisome monotony of the river-banks; it came abreast133; and ebbed134 into the backwards135 of the scene.
The watermen straining at the sweeps, the boat sped into Blackwall Reach, Bugsby Marshes136 a splash of lurid137 green to port, dreary138 Cubitt Town and the West India Docks to starboard. Here the river ran thick with shipping.
"Are we near?" Kirkwood would know; and by way of reply had a grunt139 of the younger waterman.
Again, "Will we make it?" he asked.
The identical grunt answered him; he was free to interpret it as he would; young William—as old Bob named him—had no breath for idle words. Kirkwood subsided140, controlling his impatience to the best of his ability; the men, he told himself again and again, were earning their pay, whether or not they gained the goal of his desire.... Their labors141 were titanic142; on their temples and foreheads the knotted veins143 stood out like discolored whip-cord; their faces were the shade of raw beef, steaming with sweat; their eyes protruded144 with the strain that set their jaws145 like vises; their chests heaved and shrank like bellows146; their backs curved, straightened, and bent again in rhythmic147 unison148 as tiring to the eye as the swinging of a pendulum149.
Hugging the marshy150 shore, they rounded the Blackwall Point. Young William looked to Kirkwood, caught his eye, and nodded.
"Here?"
Kirkwood rose, balancing himself against the leap and sway of the boat.
"Sumwhere's ... 'long ... o' 'ere."
From right to left his eager glance swept the river's widening reach. Vessels were there in abundance, odd, unwieldy, blunt-bowed craft with huge, rakish, tawny151 sails; long strings152 of flat barges153, pyramidal mounds154 of coal on each, lashed155 to another and convoyed by panting tugs156; steam cargo157 boats, battered158, worn, rusted159 sore through their age-old paint; a steel leviathan of the deep seas, half cargo, half passenger boat, warping160 reluctantly into the mouth of the Victoria Dock tidal basin,—but no brigantine, no sailing vessel of any type.
The young man's lips checked a cry that was half a sob161 of bitter disappointment. He had entered into the spirit of the chase heart and soul, with an enthusiasm that was strange to him, when he came to look back upon the time; and to fail, even though failure had been discounted a hundredfold since the inception162 of his mad adventure, seemed hard, very hard.
He sat down suddenly. "She's gone!" he cried in a hollow gasp163.
The boatmen eased upon their oars164, and old Bob stood up in the bows, scanning the river-scape with keen eyes shielded by a level palm. Young William drooped165 forward suddenly, head upon knees, and breathed convulsively. The boat drifted listlessly with the current.
Old Bob panted: "'Dawn't—see—nawthin'—o' 'er." He resumed his seat.
"There's no hope, I suppose?"
The elder waterman shook his head. "'Carn't sye.... Might be round—nex' bend—might be—passin' Purfleet.... 'Point is—me an' young Wilyum 'ere—carn't do no more—'n we 'as. We be wore out."
"Yes," Kirkwood assented, disconsolate166, "You've certainly earned your pay." Then hope revived; he was very young in heart, you know. "Can't you suggest something? I've got to catch that ship!"
Old Bob wagged his head in slow negation167; young William lifted his.
"There's a rylewye runs by Woolwich," he ventured. "Yer might tyke tryne an' go to Sheerness, sir. Yer'd be positive o' passin' 'er if she didn't syle afore 'igh-tide. 'Ire a boat at Sheerness an' put out an' look for 'er."
"How far's Woolwich?" Kirkwood demanded instantly.
"Mile," said the elder man. "Tyke yer for five-bob extry."
"Done!"
Young William dashed the sweat from his eyes, wiped his palms on his hips168, and fitted the sweeps again to the wooden tholes. Old Bob was as ready. With an inarticulate cry they gave way.
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