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    The Celebrity, Volume 04
    The Celebrity, Volume 04
    The Celebrity, Volume 04
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    The Celebrity, Volume 04

    By Winston Churchill

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    The Celebrity, Volume 04
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    Winston Churchill

    Sir Winston Churchill was a British military man, statesman, and Nobel-prize winning author, and, by virtue of his service during both the First and Second World Wars, is considered to be one of the greatest wartime leaders of the twentieth century. Born to the aristocracy, Churchill pursued a career in the British Army, seeing action in British India and in the Second Boer War, and later drew upon his experiences in these historic conflicts in his work as a war correspondent and writer. After retiring from active duty, Churchill moved into politics and went on to hold a number of important positions in the British government. He rose to the role of First Lord of the Admiralty during the First World War and later to the role of prime minister, a position that he held twice, from 1940-1945 and from 1951-1955. A visionary statesman, Churchill was remarkable for his ability to perceive emerging threats to international peace, and predicted the rise of Nazi Germany, the Second World War, and the Iron Curtain. In his later years Churchill returned to writing, penning the six-volume Second World War series, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, and many other historical and biographical works. Winston Churchill died in 1965 and, after one of the largest state funerals to that point in time, was interred in his family’s burial plot.

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      The Celebrity, Volume 04 - Winston Churchill

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Celebrity, Volume 4, by Winston Churchill

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Celebrity, Volume 4

      Author: Winston Churchill

      Release Date: October 19, 2004 [EBook #5386]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CELEBRITY, VOLUME 4 ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE CELEBRITY

      By Winston Churchill

      VOLUME 4.

      CHAPTER XV

      I am convinced that Mr. Cooke possessed at least some of the qualities of a great general. In certain campaigns of past centuries, and even of this, it has been hero-worship that impelled the rank and file rather than any high sympathy with the cause they were striving for. And so it was with us that morning. Our commander was everywhere at once, encouraging us to work, and holding over us in impressive language the awful alternative of capture. For he had the art, in a high degree, of inoculating his followers with the spirit which animated him; and shortly, to my great surprise, I found myself working as though my life depended on it. I certainly did not care very much whether the Celebrity was captured or not, and yet, with the prospect of getting him over the border, I had not thought of breakfast. Farrar had a natural inclination for work of this sort, but even he was infused somewhat with the contagious haste and enthusiasm which filled the air; and together we folded the tents with astonishing despatch and rowed them out to the Maria, Mr. Cooke having gone to his knees in the water to shove the boat off.

      What are we doing this for? said Farrar to me, as we hoisted the sail.

      We both laughed.

      I have just been asking myself that question, I replied.

      You are a nice district attorney, Crocker, he said. You have made a most proper and equitable decision in giving your consent to Allen's escape. Doesn't your conscience smart?

      Not unbearably. I'll tell you what, Farrar, said I, the truth is, that this fellow never embezzled so much as a ten-cent piece. He isn't guilty: he isn't the man.

      Isn't the man? repeated Farrar.

      No, I answered; it's a long tale, and no time to tell it now. But he is really, as he claims to be, the author of all those detestable books we have been hearing so much of.

      The deuce he is! exclaimed Farrar, dropping the stopper he was tying.

      Did he write The Sybarites?

      Yes, sir; he wrote The Sybarites, and all the rest of that trash.

      He's the fellow that maintains a man ought to marry a girl after he has become engaged to her.

      Exactly, I said, smiling at his way of putting it.

      Preaches constancy to all men, but doesn't object to stealing.

      I laughed.

      You're badly mixed, I explained. I told you he never stole anything. He was only ass enough to take the man's name who is the living image of him. And the other man took the bonds.

      Oh, come now, said he, tell me something improbable while you are about it.

      It's true, I replied, repressing my mirth; true as the tale of Timothy. I knew him when he was a mere boy. But I don't give you that as a proof, for he might have become all things to all men since. Ask Miss Trevor; or Miss Thorn; she knows the other man, the bicycle man, and has seen them both together.

      Where, in India? Was one standing on the ground looking at his double go to heaven? Or was it at one of those drawing-room shows where a medium holds conversation with your soul, while your body sleeps on the lounge? By George, Crocker, I thought you were a sensible man.

      No wonder I got angry. But I might have come at some proper estimation of Farrar's incredulity by that time.

      I suppose you wouldn't take a lady's word, I growled.

      Not for that, he said, busy again with the sail stops; nor St. Chrysostom's, were he to come here and vouch for it. It is too damned improbable.

      Stranger things than that have happened, I retorted, fuming.

      Not to any of us, he said. Presently he added, chuckling: He'd better not get into the clutches of that man Drew.

      What do you mean? I demanded. Farrar was exasperating at times.

      Drew will wind those handcuffs on him like tourniquets, he laughed.

      There seemed to be something behind this remark, but before I could inquire into it we were interrupted by Mr. Cooke, who was standing on the beach, swearing and gesticulating for the boat.

      I trust, said Farrar, as we rowed ashore, that this blind excitement will continue, and that we shall have the extreme pleasure of setting down our friend in Her Majesty's dominions with a yachting-suit and a ham sandwich.

      We sat down to a hasty breakfast, in the middle of which the Celebrity arrived. His appearance was unexceptionable, but his heavy jaw was set in a manner which should have warned Mr. Cooke not to trifle with him.

      Sit down, old man, and take a bite before we start for Canada, said my client.

      The Celebrity walked up to him.

      Mr. Cooke, he began in a menacing tone, it is high time this nonsense was ended. I am tired of being made a buffoon of for your party. For your gratification I have spent a sleepless night in those cold, damp woods; and I warn you that practical joking can be carried too far. I will not go to Canada, and I insist that you sail me back to Asquith.

      Mr. Cooke winked significantly in our direction and tapped his head.

      I don't wonder you're a little upset, old man, he said, humoringly patting him; but sit down for a bite of something, and you'll see things differently.

      I've had my breakfast, he said, taking out a cigarette.

      Then Mr. Trevor got up.

      He demands, sir, to be delivered over to the authorities, said he, "and you have no right to refuse him. I protest

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