At last, near four P.M., a portion of the yard-wall at the back was
broken down by the party, Hogarth was raised and dressed, and through
the breach the party passed into another back-yard, then made beachward,
Hogarth leaning on the arm of Sir Martin Phipps; but they had no sooner
come to the Esplanade than they were surrounded, and when, on their
attaining the pier, the pier-turnstile was closed against the mob, it
was impossible to conceive whence so many missiles came. Once Hogarth
stopped, faced round, looked at them, but now a pebble bruised his left
temple, and he dropped, fainting.
Caught up by Sir Martin, Loveday, Sir Francis Yeames, and Colonel
Lord Hallett of the body-guard, he was hurried, a hanging concave with
abandoned head, to the long-waiting boat, and it was in a scurry of
escape, out of stroke, that the oarsmen rowed away.
Yonder lay the yacht with her fires banked, and was soon under weigh.
She had started, when a harbour-master's motor-boat was observed giving
chase, in her an officer from Scotland Yard who bore a bag, found by
means of the key in Frankl's pocket in the Adair Street safe; on its
clasp the name “Mahomet”, and it contained £850,000: so that the yacht
went wealthy on her way.
LI
THE MODEL
The voyage to Palestine was marked by two events: one the stoppage at
Tarifa, where the five hundred from the _Mahomet_ were, these, when
taken on board the _Boodah II._, making an armed force of 700; and then,
toward sunset of the fifth day, a steamer exchanged signals with the
_Boodah II._, enquired after the whereabouts of the Lord of the Sea,
received the reply “on board”, and when she stopped it turned out that
she had on board a Jewish Petition urging upon Spinoza to come and throw
in his lot with them. And here again was that name of Rebekah, spelled
now Ribkah.
For the news of his fall--the fact that he was a Jew--had created a
mighty stirring in Israel, of wonder, of the pride of race.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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