Excerpt: ...drowning, he could continue the work of salvation. They all escaped, and the Torrington put back to Tampa for repairs, which her own engineers accomplished. The demonstration was over, and Ferguson's story was lapsing into general gossip. The party of men began to dissolve. "Who do you think I saw at Tampa?" Ferguson asked Macandrew. "Old Purdy." "What?" cried Macandrew. "Is he alive?" Ferguson laughed. "Just about. What's he been doing? I thought he had chucked the sea. It was in the Customs Office. I'd been ...
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Excerpt: ...drowning, he could continue the work of salvation. They all escaped, and the Torrington put back to Tampa for repairs, which her own engineers accomplished. The demonstration was over, and Ferguson's story was lapsing into general gossip. The party of men began to dissolve. "Who do you think I saw at Tampa?" Ferguson asked Macandrew. "Old Purdy." "What?" cried Macandrew. "Is he alive?" Ferguson laughed. "Just about. What's he been doing? I thought he had chucked the sea. It was in the Customs Office. I'd been there to make a declaration, and in one of those long corridors there he stood, all alone, with his hat in his hand, perhaps cooling his head. I hardly knew him. He's more miserable than ever." "Did he say anything?" asked Macandrew. "About as much as usual. I didn't know him at first. He seemed rather ill. The temples of that high forehead of his were knotted with veins. It nearly gave me a headache to look at him." Several of us were impelled to ask a number of questions, but Ferguson was listening now, with the detachment of youth, to the end of a bawdy story that two men were laughing over. This had already displaced Purdy in his mind. "Didn't he say anything at all? Didn't he mention Hanson?" we asked Ferguson. "Eh? What, old Purdy? I don't think so. I don't remember. Now you mention it, I think I did hear somewhere that Hanson was with Purdy. But I don't believe he said anything about him. I was just going to ask him to come and have a drink, when he said good-bye. All I know is I saw him standing there like a sorrowful saint. Then he walked off slowly down the corridor. He's a sociable beggar. I couldn't help laughing at him." 5 There was a notice in the window of the Negro Boy, and I discovered that the tavern was under Entirely New Management. The picture sign over the principal door had been renewed. The mythical little figure which had given the public-house its name was no longer lost in the soot of half a century. He was now an...
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Near Fine. No Jacket. pp. 251. 14400 sheld. 2nd printing thus, August 1925. No dust jacket. Orange & green-stamped brown cloth. "Borzoi Pocket Books" edition, compact volume. No names, clean text.
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Very good. No dust jacket. 145 p. ill. 24 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps. Map on end papers. Book Condition: very good. DJ Condition: no dj. light fading to spine and front cover board. Interior pages are clean and bright. The Binding is tight, corners are sharp. Illustrated in b/w photos.
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Very Good. First printing, limited to 2100 numbered copies of which two thousand were for sale (this being number 393). Tomlinson's tales of the London section of the Thames. Very good. Spine and spine label rubbed. No jacket.