Muriel's Two Crosses (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...half asleep as he sat looking round him at the strange place. But then a young man came slowly up the dainty, brass-rimmed ladder which led to the cabin, and looked about him with a yawn. "I say, Yeo--when did we run in here?" "About four, sir--or later, perhaps. The captain thought it better, sir; it was a rough night, and some of the gents is so easy upset like." "Upset," echoed the other, with a laugh. "They wanted no help from old Ocean to upset them last night. Where are we, Yeo?" "Captain calls it Beechwood Bay, sir. It's a little bit of a place, and I never heard of it before; but captain, he hails from these parts, and knows it well." "Beechwood Bay " exclaimed the other, and stood gazing round. "Ay, so it is. I see the tops of the trees over the red crags. Yeo, lower the punt; I'm going ashore for a while. If the gentlemen wake up, see that they have breakfast and everything they want, but no one is to land; no one, Yeo, mind that. You can say that the boat is injured, and that I have taken the punt. Get me a cup of coffee, and I shall be ready to start. The coffee was soon brought, and after swallowing it, and making a wry face over it too, the owner of the "Miller of Dee," which was the very ugly name he had chosen for his yacht, swung himself over the side, and dropped into the little tub of a punt. In a few moments he was on shore. Yeo saw him draw the boat up high and dry, and scramble up the rough dark cliff. "Ah," said the sailor to himself, " I thought so--hard he finds it, and no wonder Champagne all evening, and brandy to finish, up to three o'clock in the morning, ain't by no means the way to have a good wind for a climb. He's a fine-made man, thou...