A Cabinet Secret : Chapter 11

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Chapter eleven of A Cabinet's Secret by Guy Boothby this
LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Reading by Matte Perrard,
chapter eleven. The tale of our adventures has occupied a
long time in the telling. There remains but little more

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to be added. What there is, however, I venture to
think may be of interest to you. According to the
captain's arrangements, we explored the sea for considerable distance around
Eschel Head, but without discovering any sign of the yacht.
The peasantry we learnt had seen nothing of her, and

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it was not until we reached the little harbor of
Galashin that we learned how swift and entirely unexpected had
been her fate. How it happened, no one will ever know,
Though it is conjectured that the fog was responsible for
the cat astrophe. At any rate, the fact remains that

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when little more than eight miles from Galishin, she went
ashore on that terrible coast, and in less than an
hour became a total wreck. You would be quite justified
in asking how we knew that it was the same vessel.
Let me explain. When we landed to make inquiries concerning
the wreck. An old man informed us that only one

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body had been recovered, that of a woman, if we
cared to inspect it. He added, it was at that moment,
lying in his cabin awaiting burial. Impelled by a feeling
that was something more than curiosity, we entered the rough
hut on the cliff. I think we all knew what
we should see. When we came out into the sunlight again. Costellan,

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whose face was very pale, put his hand on my shoulder. Mandeville,
old friend, he said, shake Spear was right when he
said that there are more things in heaven and earth
than are dreamt of in our philosophy. That woman lying
in the hut planned our ruin, and but for you,

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she would have accomplished it. Now she is dead while
we are alive. There is a moral in it if
one cared to look for it. And Conrad Sargasta and
the other man, what can have become of them drowned?
You may be sure, he answered, in the same curious voice,

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Poor wretches, they have received their punishment sooner than they expected.
When all is said and done, we can afford to
forgive them. As he finished speaking, we heard the snarl
of the waves on the rocks below. They were telling
their own tale, and I shuddered as I heard it.
The outburst of excitement the furier, I might say, which

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readed our arrival in London, will be well remembered by
every one. For this reason, it is not necessary for
me to touch upon it here. How Waller completed his
journey to the cape, after all, and the great things
that he accomplished when he got there are also known
to every one. I think it only right, however, in conclusion,

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to add that in giving this record of our strange
adventures to the public, I have done what I consider
to be my duty, and with the hope that no
public men will ever again be called upon to endure
so much, I make my bow and bid my readers
a polite farewell. The end end of chapter eleven, end

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of A Cabinet Secret by Guy boothby