Jack Harkaway After Schooldays (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Jack Harkaway After Schooldays "Come on, Dick. Here's the ship, " exclaimed Jack. "All right! I'm close behind, " answered Harvey. It was eleven o'clock in the morning, and the tide served in about an hour, so that the ship "Fairy" would have to start on her outward voyage in a short time. The two friends had come down by rail from Fenchurch Street to Blackwall, where the ship was lying. Most of their kit had been sent on board the day before, by an outfitter in one of the tortuous streets in the neighbourhood. But they had brought a lot of things down with them from London, with which the thoughtful care of their parents had provided them. Jack's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Bedington, and Harvey's mother, accompanied them to Blackwall, but having been on board twice before, the ladies did not care to go again, in the bustle and confusion of sailing, for they knew they would only be in the way. Mr. Bedington had escorted the ladies to a private room in the famous Brunswick Hotel, promising to go and see the boys on board, and return to them when the ship went out of the dock, and stand with them on the pier to wave a handkerchief and wish them a last good-bye. Both Dick and his friend were groaning beneath a weight of parcels, and they with difficulty ascended the ladder at the ship's side. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.