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    Dialstone Lane, Part 5.
    Dialstone Lane, Part 5.
    Dialstone Lane, Part 5.
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    Dialstone Lane, Part 5.

    By W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Dialstone Lane, Part 5. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dialstone Lane, Part 5., by W.W. Jacobs

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      Title: Dialstone Lane, Part 5.

      Author: W.W. Jacobs

      Release Date: April 9, 2004 [EBook #11975]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIALSTONE LANE, PART 5. ***

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      DIALSTONE LANE

      By W. W. Jacobs

      PART V.

      Table of Contents

      List of Illustrations

      The fair Emily

      He Led the Reluctant Man As Far from The Helmsman As Possible and Whispered the Information.

      Mr. Duckett Took the Helm.

      The 'fair Emily' Had Disappeared.

      Mr. Chalk, With the Air of an Old Campaigner, Made A Small Fire and Prepared Breakfast.

      Her Friend Gazed Long and Mournfully at a Large Photograph of Mr. Stobell.

      Miss Vickers Stood Wiping Her Hands on Her Coarse Apron.

      Selina Gives Twopence on Account.

      I Told Him That You Would Like to Hear It.

      Half Binchester Had Congregated to Welcome Their Fellow-townsmen.

      'Halloa! What Do You Want?' he Inquired

      'It'll Be All Right,' Said Brisket, Puffing at His Cigar.

      Then Tredgold, With his Back to the Others, Caught His Eye and Frowned Significantly.

      They Stared Solemnly up Dialstone Lane.

      CHAPTER XVIII

      Month by month the Fair Emily crept down south. The Great Bear and other constellations gave way to the stars of the southern skies, and Mr. Chalk tried hard not to feel disappointed with the arrangement of those in the Southern Cross. Pressed by the triumphant Brisket, to whom he voiced his views, he had to admit that it was at least as much like a cross as the other was a bear.

      As they got farther south he had doffed his jersey and sea boots in favour of a drill suit and bare feet. In this costume, surmounted by a Panama hat, he was the only thing aboard that afforded the slightest amusement to Mr. Stobell, whose temper was suffering severely under a long spell of monotonous idleness, and whose remarks concerning the sea and everything in connection with it were so strangely out of keeping with the idea of a pleasure cruise that Mr. Tredgold lectured him severely on his indiscretion.

      Stobell is no more doing this for pleasure than I am, said Captain Brisket to Mr. Duckett. It's something big that's brought him all this way, you mark my words.

      The mate nodded acquiescence. What about Mr. Chalk? he said, in a low voice. Can't you get it out of him?

      Shuts up like an oyster directly I get anywhere near it, replied the captain; sticks to it that it is a yachting trip and that Tredgold is studying the formations of islands. Says he has got a list of them he is going to visit.

      Mr. Tredgold was talking the same way to me, said the mate. He says he's going to write a book about them when he goes back. He asked me what I thought'ud be a good title.

      I know what would be a good title for him, growled Brisket, as Mr. Stobell came on deck and gazed despondently over the side. We're getting towards the end of our journey, sir.

      End? said Mr. Stobell. End? I don't believe there is an end. I believe you've lost your way and we shall go sailing on and on for ever.

      He walked aft and, placing himself in a deckchair, gazed listlessly at the stolid figure of the helmsman. The heat was intense, and both Tredgold and Chalk had declined to proceed with a conversation limited almost entirely on his side to personal abuse. He tried the helmsman, and made that unfortunate thirsty for a week by discussing the rival merits of bitter ale in a pewter and stout in a china mug. The helmsman, a man of liberal ideas, said, with some emotion, that he could drink either of them out of a flower-pot.

      Mr. Chalk became strangely restless as they neared their goal. He had come thousands of miles and had seen nothing fresh with the exception of a few flying-fish, an albatross, and a whale blowing in the distance. Pacing the deck late one night with Captain Brisket he expressed mild yearnings for a little excitement.

      You want adventure, said the captain, shaking his head at him. "I know you. Ah, what a sailorman you'd ha' made. With a crew o' six like yourself I'd take this little craft anywhere. The way you pick up

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