The Mystery of the Downs by Arthur J. Rees; John R. Watson Chapter 6 Free Teens Audiobook.
chapter 6 of the mystery of the downs by john watson and arthur j reese this librivox recording is in the public domain recording by tony oliva chapter 6 from the front gate of cliff farm the road wound up the hill steeply and sinuously following the broken curves of the coastline till it disappeared in the cutting of the hill 300 yards from the house and reappeared on the other side as far as could be seen from the house the cutting through the hill was the only place where the road diverged from the cliff no other shortcut on a large scale had been attempted by the makers of the road which for the most part skirted the irregular outline of the bluff and rocky coast until it seemed a mere white thread in the distant green of the spacious downs which stretched for many miles to the waters of the channel on the far side of the cutting the downs came fully into view rolling back from the edge of the cliffs to a low range of distant wooded hills and stretching ahead till they were merged in the town of stavely nearly 10 miles away stably's church spires could be seen from the headland near cliff farm on a clear day and the road in front of the farm ran to the town skirting the edge of the cliffs for nearly the whole of the way crew and marsland walked up the road from the house for some distance in silence sir george granville had gone back to stavely in his car but his nephew and crew had arranged to stay behind and spend the night at ashling sea crew desired to begin his investigations without delay and inspector payne had asked mr marslin to remain at ashling sea in case detective gillette wanted further light from him on incidental points as they walked along crew was thoughtful and marslin scrutinized the wayside closely anxious to find the spot where his horse had swerved and stumbled on the previous night thus preoccupied they reached the highest point of the cliff a rocky headland which ran out from the hilltop on the other side of the cutting forming a landmark well known to the fishermen of the district the headland which was not more than a hundred yards across the base jutted sharply out into the sea immediately beyond it on the stavely side the road ran along the edge of the cliffs for several hundred yards with a light rail fence on the outside as some protection for traffic from the danger of going over the side to the rocks below where the grassy margin of the headland narrowed to this dangerous pass an ancient and faded notice board on a post which had departed from its perpendicular position warned drivers that the next portion of the road was dangerous and a similar board was affixed to the other end of the protecting fence marsland stopped opposite the point where the first notice board confronted them from the narrowing margin of headland it was somewhere about here that my horse took fright last night i think he said examining the green bank on the side of the road farthest from the cliff yes here's where he slipped crew examined the deep indentation of hoof marks with interest it's lucky for you your horse shied in that direction he said if he had sprung the other way you might have gone over the cliffs in spite of the fence look here marceline followed him to the edge of the cliff and glanced over the tide was out and the cliffside fell almost perpendicularly to the jagged rocks nearly 300 feet below they'd be covered at high tide said crew pointing downward to the rocks but even if one fell over at high tide there would not be much chance of escape the breakers must come in with terrific force on this rocky coast it's a horribly dangerous piece of road especially at night time said marsland i suppose there was some bad accident here at one time or another which compelled the local authorities to put up that fence and the warning notices even now it's far from safe somebody's had a narrow escape from going...

The Mystery of the Downs by Arthur J. Rees; John R. Watson Chapter 6 Free Teens Audiobook.
chapter 6 of the mystery of the downs by john watson and arthur j reese this librivox recording is in the public domain recording by tony oliva chapter 6 from the front gate of cliff farm the road wound up the hill steeply and sinuously following the broken curves of the coastline till it disappeared in the cutting of the hill 300 yards from the house and reappeared on the other side as far as could be seen from the house the cutting through the hill was the only place where the road diverged from the cliff no other shortcut on a large scale had been attempted by the makers of the road which for the most part skirted the irregular outline of the bluff and rocky coast until it seemed a mere white thread in the distant green of the spacious downs which stretched for many miles to the waters of the channel on the far side of the cutting the downs came fully into view rolling back from the edge of the cliffs to a low range of distant wooded hills and stretching ahead till they were merged in the town of stavely nearly 10 miles away stably's church spires could be seen from the headland near cliff farm on a clear day and the road in front of the farm ran to the town skirting the edge of the cliffs for nearly the whole of the way crew and marsland walked up the road from the house for some distance in silence sir george granville had gone back to stavely in his car but his nephew and crew had arranged to stay behind and spend the night at ashling sea crew desired to begin his investigations without delay and inspector payne had asked mr marslin to remain at ashling sea in case detective gillette wanted further light from him on incidental points as they walked along crew was thoughtful and marslin scrutinized the wayside closely anxious to find the spot where his horse had swerved and stumbled on the previous night thus preoccupied they reached the highest point of the cliff a rocky headland which ran out from the hilltop on the other side of the cutting forming a landmark well known to the fishermen of the district the headland which was not more than a hundred yards across the base jutted sharply out into the sea immediately beyond it on the stavely side the road ran along the edge of the cliffs for several hundred yards with a light rail fence on the outside as some protection for traffic from the danger of going over the side to the rocks below where the grassy margin of the headland narrowed to this dangerous pass an ancient and faded notice board on a post which had departed from its perpendicular position warned drivers that the next portion of the road was dangerous and a similar board was affixed to the other end of the protecting fence marsland stopped opposite the point where the first notice board confronted them from the narrowing margin of headland it was somewhere about here that my horse took fright last night i think he said examining the green bank on the side of the road farthest from the cliff yes here's where he slipped crew examined the deep indentation of hoof marks with interest it's lucky for you your horse shied in that direction he said if he had sprung the other way you might have gone over the cliffs in spite of the fence look here marceline followed him to the edge of the cliff and glanced over the tide was out and the cliffside fell almost perpendicularly to the jagged rocks nearly 300 feet below they'd be covered at high tide said crew pointing downward to the rocks but even if one fell over at high tide there would not be much chance of escape the breakers must come in with terrific force on this rocky coast it's a horribly dangerous piece of road especially at night time said marsland i suppose there was some bad accident here at one time or another which compelled the local authorities to put up that fence and the warning notices even now it's far from safe somebody's had a narrow escape from going...

The Mystery of the Downs by Arthur J. Rees; John R. Watson Chapter 5 Free Teens Audiobook

The Mystery of the Downs by Arthur J. Rees; John R. Watson Chapter 5 Free Teens Audiobook

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The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers Chapter 8 The Theory Free Teens Audiobook.
chapter 8 of the riddle of the sans this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by gazina the riddle of the sands by asking childers chapter 8 the theory davies leaned back and gave a deep sigh as though he still felt the relief from some tension i did the same and felt the same relief the chart freed from the pressure of our fingers rolled up with a flip as though to say what do you think of that i have straightened out his sentences a little for in the excitement of his story they had grown more and more jerky and elliptical what about dolman i asked of course sir davis what about him i didn't get out much that night it was also sudden the only thing i could have sworn to from the first was that he had purposely left me in the lodge that day i pieced out the rest in the next few days which i'll just finish with as shortly as i can bottles came aboard next morning and though it was blowing hard we still managed to shift the darcy bella to a place where she dried safely at the midday low water and we could get at her rudder the lower screw plate on the stern post had ranged out and we botched it up roughly as a makeshift there were other little breakages but nothing to matter and the loss of the jib was nothing as i had two spare ones the dinghy was past repaired as then and i lashed it on deck it turned out that bottles was carrying apples from bremen to capone in this fjord and had run into that channel in the sands for shelter from the weather today he was bound for the ida river whence as i told you you can get through by riven canal into the baltic of course the elbow route by the new kaiser wilhelm ship canal is the shortest the ida route is the old one but he hoped to get rid of some of his apples at the turn at its mouth both fruits touched the baltic at keel as you know i had been running for the elbow but yesterday's mock-up put me off and i changed my mind i'll tell you why presently and decided to sail to the ida along with the johannes and get through that way it cleared from the east next day and i raised him there winning hands down left him at tuning and in three days was in the baltic it was just a week after i ran ashore that i wired to you you see i had come to the conclusion that that trap was a spy in the end it came out quite quietly and suddenly and left me in profound amazement i wired to you that chap was a spy it was the close association of these two ideas that hid me hardest at the moment for a second i was back in the dreary splendor of the london club room spelling out that crab scroll from davies and fastidiously criticizing its proposal in the light of a holiday holiday what was to be its issue chilling and opaque is the fog that filtered through the skylight there flooded my imagination a mist of doubt and fear a spy i repeated blankly what do you mean why did you wire me a spy of what of whom i'll tell you how i worked it out said davis i don't think spy is the right word but i mean something pretty bad he purposely put me ashore i don't think i'm suspicious by nature but i know something about boats and this e i know he could have kept close to me if he had chosen and i saw the hill place at low water when we left those sands on the second day look at the chart again here's the hohenhern bank that i showed you as blocking the road it's in two pieces first the west and then the east you see the tilted channel dividing into two branches and curving around it both branches are broadened deep as channels go in those waters now in sailing in i was nowhere near either of them when i last saw doorman he must have been steering straight for the bank itself at a point somewhere here quite a mile from the northern arm of the channel and two from the southern i followed by compass as you know and found...

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers Chapter 8 The Theory Free Teens Audiobook.
chapter 8 of the riddle of the sans this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by gazina the riddle of the sands by asking childers chapter 8 the theory davies leaned back and gave a deep sigh as though he still felt the relief from some tension i did the same and felt the same relief the chart freed from the pressure of our fingers rolled up with a flip as though to say what do you think of that i have straightened out his sentences a little for in the excitement of his story they had grown more and more jerky and elliptical what about dolman i asked of course sir davis what about him i didn't get out much that night it was also sudden the only thing i could have sworn to from the first was that he had purposely left me in the lodge that day i pieced out the rest in the next few days which i'll just finish with as shortly as i can bottles came aboard next morning and though it was blowing hard we still managed to shift the darcy bella to a place where she dried safely at the midday low water and we could get at her rudder the lower screw plate on the stern post had ranged out and we botched it up roughly as a makeshift there were other little breakages but nothing to matter and the loss of the jib was nothing as i had two spare ones the dinghy was past repaired as then and i lashed it on deck it turned out that bottles was carrying apples from bremen to capone in this fjord and had run into that channel in the sands for shelter from the weather today he was bound for the ida river whence as i told you you can get through by riven canal into the baltic of course the elbow route by the new kaiser wilhelm ship canal is the shortest the ida route is the old one but he hoped to get rid of some of his apples at the turn at its mouth both fruits touched the baltic at keel as you know i had been running for the elbow but yesterday's mock-up put me off and i changed my mind i'll tell you why presently and decided to sail to the ida along with the johannes and get through that way it cleared from the east next day and i raised him there winning hands down left him at tuning and in three days was in the baltic it was just a week after i ran ashore that i wired to you you see i had come to the conclusion that that trap was a spy in the end it came out quite quietly and suddenly and left me in profound amazement i wired to you that chap was a spy it was the close association of these two ideas that hid me hardest at the moment for a second i was back in the dreary splendor of the london club room spelling out that crab scroll from davies and fastidiously criticizing its proposal in the light of a holiday holiday what was to be its issue chilling and opaque is the fog that filtered through the skylight there flooded my imagination a mist of doubt and fear a spy i repeated blankly what do you mean why did you wire me a spy of what of whom i'll tell you how i worked it out said davis i don't think spy is the right word but i mean something pretty bad he purposely put me ashore i don't think i'm suspicious by nature but i know something about boats and this e i know he could have kept close to me if he had chosen and i saw the hill place at low water when we left those sands on the second day look at the chart again here's the hohenhern bank that i showed you as blocking the road it's in two pieces first the west and then the east you see the tilted channel dividing into two branches and curving around it both branches are broadened deep as channels go in those waters now in sailing in i was nowhere near either of them when i last saw doorman he must have been steering straight for the bank itself at a point somewhere here quite a mile from the northern arm of the channel and two from the southern i followed by compass as you know and found...

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers Chapter 6 Schlei Fiord Free Teens Audiobook.

chapter 7 of the riddle of the sans this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by gazina

the riddle of the sands by asking childers chapter seven the missing page

i awoke on first of october with that dispiriting sensation that a hitch has occurred in a settled plan it was explained when i went on deck and i found the delta bella wrapped in a fog silent clammy nothing visible from her decks but the ghostly hull of a galleot at anchor near us she must have brought up there in the night for there had been nothing so close the evening before and i remembered that my sleep had been broken once by sounds of rumbling chain and gruff voices

this looks pretty hopeless for today i said with a shiver to davies who was laying the breakfast well we can't do anything till this fog lifts he answered with a good deal of resignation breakfast was a cheerless meal the dump penetrated to the very cabin whose roof and walls wept to find you i had dreaded a bath and yet i missed it and the ghastly light made the tablecloth look dirtier than it naturally was and all the accessories more sorted something had gone wrong with the bacon and the lack of egg cups was not in the least humorous

davies was just beginning in his summery way to tumble the things together for washing tip when there was a sound of a step on deck two sea boots appeared on the ladder and before we could wonder who the visitor was a little man in oil skins and a sourester was stooping towards us in the cabin door smiling affectionately at davis out of a round grizzled beard well met captain he said quietly in german where are you bound to this time battles exclaimed davies jumping up the two stooping figures young and old beamed at each other like father and son where have you come from have some coffee how is the johannes was that you that came in last night i'm delighted to see you i spare the reader his uncouth lingo the little man was dragged in and seated on the opposite sofa to me i took my apples to kaplan he said sedately and now i sail to keel and say to hamburg where my wife and children are it is my last voyage of the year you are no longer alone captain i see he had taken off his dripping southwester and was browning ceremoniously towards me over quite forgot said davies who had been kneeling on one knee in the low doorway absorbed in his visitor this is miner freund her carrathos ca brothers this is my friend schiffer bottles of the galleon johannes was i never to be at an end of the puzzles which davies presented to me all the impulsive heartiness died out of his voice and manner as he uttered the last few words and there he was nervously glancing from the visitor to me like one who against his will or from tactlessness has introduced two persons who he knows will disagree

there was a pause while he fumbled with the cups poured some cold coffee out and pondered over it as though it were a chemical experiment then he muttered something about boiling some more water and took refuge in the forecastle i was ill at ease at this period with seafaring man but this mild little person was easy ground for a beginner besides when he took off his old skin coat he reminded me less of a sailor than of a homely draper of some country town with his clean turned down collar and neatly fitting freeze jacket we exchanged some polite platitudes about the fog and his journey and his voyage last night from kaplan which appeared to be a town some 15 miles up the fjord davies joined in from the forecastle with an excess of warmth which almost took the words out of my mouth we exhausted the subject very soon and then my vis-a-vis smiled paternally at me as he had done a device and said confidentially it is good that the captain...

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers Chapter 6 Schlei Fiord Free Teens Audiobook.

chapter 7 of the riddle of the sans this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by gazina

the riddle of the sands by asking childers chapter seven the missing page

i awoke on first of october with that dispiriting sensation that a hitch has occurred in a settled plan it was explained when i went on deck and i found the delta bella wrapped in a fog silent clammy nothing visible from her decks but the ghostly hull of a galleot at anchor near us she must have brought up there in the night for there had been nothing so close the evening before and i remembered that my sleep had been broken once by sounds of rumbling chain and gruff voices

this looks pretty hopeless for today i said with a shiver to davies who was laying the breakfast well we can't do anything till this fog lifts he answered with a good deal of resignation breakfast was a cheerless meal the dump penetrated to the very cabin whose roof and walls wept to find you i had dreaded a bath and yet i missed it and the ghastly light made the tablecloth look dirtier than it naturally was and all the accessories more sorted something had gone wrong with the bacon and the lack of egg cups was not in the least humorous

davies was just beginning in his summery way to tumble the things together for washing tip when there was a sound of a step on deck two sea boots appeared on the ladder and before we could wonder who the visitor was a little man in oil skins and a sourester was stooping towards us in the cabin door smiling affectionately at davis out of a round grizzled beard well met captain he said quietly in german where are you bound to this time battles exclaimed davies jumping up the two stooping figures young and old beamed at each other like father and son where have you come from have some coffee how is the johannes was that you that came in last night i'm delighted to see you i spare the reader his uncouth lingo the little man was dragged in and seated on the opposite sofa to me i took my apples to kaplan he said sedately and now i sail to keel and say to hamburg where my wife and children are it is my last voyage of the year you are no longer alone captain i see he had taken off his dripping southwester and was browning ceremoniously towards me over quite forgot said davies who had been kneeling on one knee in the low doorway absorbed in his visitor this is miner freund her carrathos ca brothers this is my friend schiffer bottles of the galleon johannes was i never to be at an end of the puzzles which davies presented to me all the impulsive heartiness died out of his voice and manner as he uttered the last few words and there he was nervously glancing from the visitor to me like one who against his will or from tactlessness has introduced two persons who he knows will disagree

there was a pause while he fumbled with the cups poured some cold coffee out and pondered over it as though it were a chemical experiment then he muttered something about boiling some more water and took refuge in the forecastle i was ill at ease at this period with seafaring man but this mild little person was easy ground for a beginner besides when he took off his old skin coat he reminded me less of a sailor than of a homely draper of some country town with his clean turned down collar and neatly fitting freeze jacket we exchanged some polite platitudes about the fog and his journey and his voyage last night from kaplan which appeared to be a town some 15 miles up the fjord davies joined in from the forecastle with an excess of warmth which almost took the words out of my mouth we exhausted the subject very soon and then my vis-a-vis smiled paternally at me as he had done a device and said confidentially it is good that the captain...