Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-18
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don't know if that had occurred to
you"
1T had" smiled Antony. Lets
come and have aNlook at it."
They walked to the edge of the
copse, and lay down there in silence
looking at the pond beneath them.
See anything" said Antony at
last.
WHAT"
i THE fence on the other side"
What about it?"
We'll its rather useful, that's
ALL"
said Sherlock Holmes enigmati-
cally." added Bill. "A moment later,
his friend Watson had hurled him
into'the pond"
Antony laughed.
Il love being Sherlocky," he said
ITS very unfair of you not to play
UP to me-"
"Why is that fence useful. my
dear Holiness" said Bill obediently.
Because you can take a bearing
on 1t. You see"
Eyes, you needn't stop to explain
to me what a bearing is"
81 wasn't going to. But you're
lying here"-he looked u~p--"under-
meath this pine-tree. Cayley comes
out in the old boat and drops his
parcel in. You take a line from here
on to the boat. and mark it off on
the fence there. Say it's the fifth
post from the end. Well, then l
take a line from my tree-we'll find
n for me directly-and 1t comes
on to the twentieth post. say. And
where the two lines meet there shall
the eagles be gathered together.
Q. E.. ID. And there, I almost forgot
to remark, will the taller eagle,
Beverley by name, do his famous
diving act. As performed nightly at
the Hippodrome."
Bill looked at him uneasily.
II say, really? It's beastly dirty
water. you know"
"Tm afraid so. Bill. So 1t is writ
ten in the book of Jasher."
"Of course I knew that one of us
would have to. but I hoped-oh.
well, it's a warm night"
Just the night for a bathe,"
agreed Antony, getting up. "Wel
now. let's have a look for my tree"
They walked down to the margin
of the pond and then looked back.
Bills tree stood up and took the
evening, tall and unmistakable, fifty
feet nearer to heaven than its
neighbors. But it had it's fellow at
the other enI of the copse, not quite
so tall, perhaps, but equally con-
s%picuous.
That's where I shall be-" said
Antony. pointing to it. Now, for
the Lords sake. count your posts
accurately"
Thanks very much. but I shall
do it for my w sake" said Bill
with feeling. II don't want to spend
the whole night diving"
Fix on the post in a straight line
with you and the splash, and then
count backward to the beginning Of
the fence"
Right, old boy. Leave it to me. ]
ear do this on my head"
"Well, that's how you will have to
do the last part of it," said Antony
with a smile.
He looked at his watch. 1t was
nearly time to change for dinner.
They started to walk back to the
house together.
At midnight the pond was waiting
for them, more solemn in the moon
light. The trees which crowned the
sloping bank on the far side of 1t
were mysteriously silent. 1t seemed
that they had the world very much
to themselves.
Almos. unconsciously Antony
spoke in a whisper.
There's your tree, there's mine.
As long as you don't o there's
no chance of his seeing you. After
he's gone, don't come out till I do.
He won't be here for a quarter of
hour OF so, so don't be impa-
tent"
"Righto," whispered Bill.
Antony gave him a nod and a
smile, and they walked off to their
posts.
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