Hell's Hatches

Where a word from me (and Allen would know that my friendship for Bell, to say nothing of the girl, would impel me to speak it in my own good time) would dash him from the heights to depths which even he had not yet sounded-there were degrees of treachery which "The Islands" themselves would not stand for-it was only to be expected that a man of his stamp would make some well-thought-out move calculated to impose both immediate and eventual silence upon me. If we were still "north of twenty-two" I would have had no doubt what form that "move" would take, and even here in the heart of the Antipodean metropolis-well, that I was leaving no unnecessary loop-holes of attack open was attested by the fact that I was awaiting his coming wearing a roomy old shooting jacket, in the wide pockets of which a man's fingers could work both freely and unobtrusively.

Author: Lewis Ransome Freeman

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Mar 16, 2017

Number of Pages: 216 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1544626282

ISBN-13: 9781544626284