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Chapter X Various Parties Converging on the Sea
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A pink and blue June morning found me at Bradgate looking from the Griffin Hotel over a smooth sea to the lightship on the Cock sands which seemed the size of a bell-buoy. A couple of miles farther south and much nearer the shore a small destroyer was anchored. Scaife, MacGillivray’s man, who had been in the Navy, knew the boat, and told me her name and her commander’s, so I sent off a wire to Sir Walter.
After breakfast Scaife got from a house-agent a key for the gates of the staircases on the Ruff. I walked with him along the sands, and sat down in a nook of the cliffs while he investigated the half-dozen of them. I didn’t want to be seen, but the place at this hour was quite deserted1, and all the time I was on that beach I saw nothing but the seagulls.
It took him more than an hour to do the job, and when I saw him coming towards me, conning2 a bit of paper, I can tell you my heart was in my mouth. Everything depended, you see, on my guess proving right.
He read aloud the number of steps in the different stairs. “Thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-nine, forty-two, forty-seven,” and “twenty-one’ where the cliffs grew lower. I almost got up and shouted.
We hurried back to the town and sent a wire to MacGillivray. I wanted half a dozen men, and I directed them to divide themselves among different specified3 hotels. Then Scaife set out to prospect4 the house at the head of the thirty-nine steps.
He came back with news that both puzzled and reassured5 me. The house was called Trafalgar Lodge7, and belonged to an old gentleman called Appleton—a retired8 stockbroker9, the house-agent said. Mr Appleton was there a good deal in the summer time, and was in residence now—had been for the better part of a week. Scaife could pick up very little information about him, except that he was a decent old fellow, who paid his bills regularly, and was always good for a fiver for a local charity. Then Scaife seemed to have
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(使)活跃( perk的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)增值; 使更有趣 | |
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anarchists
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罪恶,时事讽刺剧; 愚蠢,蠢笨,愚蠢的行为、思想或做法( folly的名词复数 ) | |
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aviary
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platitude
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n.老生常谈,陈词滥调 | |
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flannels
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法兰绒男裤; 法兰绒( flannel的名词复数 ) | |
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wireless
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buck
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bazaar
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barometer
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公开声称的,伪称的,已立誓信教的 | |
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scrutiny
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