Double Dealing / Sailor's Knots, Part 11.

by W. W. Jacobs

SAILORS' KNOTS

By W.W. Jacobs

1909

Part 11.

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List of Illustrations

[ "Stood on the Spacious Common, Inhaling The Salt Smell Of The Sea Below." ] [ "An Elderly Boatman, Who, After Looking at Him Hard, Took His Pipe from his Mouth and Bade Him 'good-evening.'" ] [ "She Piled Mr. Carter's Plate up So Generously That Her Father and Brother Had Ample Time at Their Disposal to Watch Him Eat." ] [ "A Gentleman of Middle Age Was Peeping Round the Door." ]

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DOUBLE DEALING

Mr. Fred Carter stood on the spacious common, inhaling with all the joy of the holiday-making Londoner the salt smell of the sea below, and regarding with some interest the movements of a couple of men who had come to a stop a short distance away. As he looked they came on again, eying him closely as they approached—a strongly built, shambling man of fifty, and a younger man, evidently his son.