Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... "Take Miss Marjorie to Wordingham--Inn--village. Gather up--all those papers. Put them in bag. After--Miss Marjorie--Inn--run--fast as you can--to--Doctor's--old Hulk--Thirty Main. Give everything--Mr. Carey. Good-bye, boy...." One last gasp, and the word " England!" sighed out into the bedroom. CHAPTER VIII THE TRUTH AT LAST, THE INCREDIBLE TRUTH! AND HOW THEY FOUGHT FOR THE SUBMARINE Just after midnight, my brother and myself sat crouching behind the bulwarks of the Hulk. It was the weirdest hour, the strangest scene, that my eyes had ever looked upon. Snow was falling fast, and yet, somewhere above, there was a moon. It was all white and ghostly-green, shifting, moving, unreal, as befitted the horrors which pressed us close. Yet we were exultant; I can testify to that. "The Judge was set, the doom begun "; in our hearts was the fiery certainty of success. In the deck-house were Bernard's three men, Scarlett, Adams, and Bosustow--all of whom had served with him in his own ship. Below, in the saloon, Doris, old Lieutenant Murphy of the Coastguards, and the two Dickson boys were waiting. Let me give the very briefest resume-of events up to the present. Dickson major had fulfilled his trust. He had taken Marjorie Joyce to Mrs. Wordingham at the inn; then he had come to us with the bag of papers. He had told us everything. All we told Doris was that her sister had been taken to the inn and that her stepfather was arrested at the school. We had to keep Doris with us for a time, but old Lieutenant Murphy, who was now entirely in our confidence, would take her back to the village when the adventure of the night was over. His car was waiting there and Doris and Marjorie would both find refuge with Mrs. Murphy at Cockthorpe. The prisoners, Kiderlen-Waechter and the Ger...