Interactive maps using HTML5 data tags, no coding!
For a long time, i have felt that "Geo" - Spatial Content has been relegated a role as a third-class denizen of The Internet and HTML(5) in particular...
Included as an afterthought or somehow shoe-horned into existing web technology by "propellor-head" developers in GIS dark rooms, Geo seems to have missed the calling that Video and Audio have recieved with the advent of HTML5.
Since almost the inception of HTML, the <MAP/>
element has been a first class denizen of HTML and The Internet .... but, amazingly it still remains an Image Map; as opposed to a spatial representation of data.
GEO5 seeks to restore "Geo" as a first class denizen of the modern, HTML5, Internet by allowing content authors to markup their existing HTML content with Spatial/Geo context. Further, it allows authors to bind HTML content to Geo. elements in a sophisticated manner regardless of choice of web technology without the need for specialist coding skills.
It is my hope that GEO5 can be leveraged to produce a range of new tools such as WordPress authoring plugins, Browser plugins and extensions and MS Office/OpenOffice tools to ease the authoring of "Geo" content by making it a first-class element of the modern content authoring process.
GEO5 makes use of certain HTML elements and CSS properties that require the use of the HTML5 doctype. Include it at the beginning of all your projects.
<!DOCTYPE html>  ...
Now, here's a look at a typical HTML file:
<!DOCTYPE html>   <title>GEO5 Template</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
Hello, globe!

To make this a GEO5 template, just include the appropriate CSS and JS files:
<!DOCTYPE html>   <title>GEO5 Template</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">  <link href="http://geo5.org/css/geo5.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen">
Hello, Globe!

And you're set! With those two files added, you can begin to Geoenable any site with GEO5.
Adding Map Display components to your HTML pages should be as easy as including an appropriate tag on your existing HTML elements. With GEO5 it is exactly that easy!
Turning a standard DIV element into an interactive web map display can be achieved with the following simple addition to your HTML:

 ...

GEO5 provides access to a wide variety of basemaps from free providers regardless of their format as well as basemaps from subscription and registered providers.
Selecting your basemap is as easy as setting the data-geo-basemap attribute on your map element:

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Current options suitable for basemaps are:
In addition to a variety of Basemaps, GEO5 provides the essential capability to include operational layers on your maps without Javascript coding
Adding an operational layer to a map is as easy as including an data-geo-type="tileLayer" attribute on any HTML element.

Stamen.TonerLabels on Esri.WorldPhysical

GEO5 supports a wide variety of raster/imagery based layer from many popular providers
To add a raster layer to any GEO5 map, you simply need to include an data-geo-type="tileLayer" attribute and specify the type of layer with the data-geo-layer-type="{layertype}"
attribute. Other options for the specific layer are also specified utilising data-{LAYERTYPE}-{OPTION}="{VALUE}"
syntax.
As with all GEO5 components, you can include configuration options and settings directly on the HTML elements of your standard HTML page through the use of data-*
attributes (a part of the HTML5 specification)
ArcGIS MapService's which are exposed with pre-cached tiles (Single Fused Map Cache). You can add ArcGIS MapService layers of this kind to your web pages by utilising the data-geo-layer-type="ArcGIS"

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Mapping Service (WMS) layers are supported through the familiar attribute-based syntax within GEO5

Cubewerx.gtopo30 on Esri.WorldPhysical on Esri.WorldPhysical

Generic Tile based map services (TMS) are supported by GEO5. This allows you to access custom or proprietary Map Servives by specifying the format of the url endpoint utilised to access the service.

GEO5 supports a variety of Vector layers with complex Cartographic styilng capabilites available without the necessity of Javascript code.
Without modification or inclusion of additional plugin scripts [see Geo. Behaviours], the following vector layer types are supported:
The content for any featureLayer can be specified using the data-geo-url , src or href attributes on your HTML elements. Content can also be provided as the contents of a SCRIPT tag with the type="text/geoJSON" attribute set. In this way, spatial content can be directly embedded in your HTML without any visible trace.
Including ArcGIS Feature Services on your maps with GEO5 simply requires the inclusion of the data-geo-type="featureLayer" and specifying the appropriate data-geo-layer-type="arcgis" attribute.
By default, GEO5 when used with an ArcGIS Server Feature Service, uses symbology and scaleRange options from ArcGIS Server. This lets your write less code and use the symbology and scale dependent rendering you've spent many hours developing with ArcGIS Desktop.
Is achieved simply through the following code...

 ArcGIS Feature Service Layer Showing San-Francisco 311 Incidents on Stamen.Toner basemap
Including GeoJSON features on your maps with GEO5 simply requires the inclusion of the data-geo-type="featureLayer" and specifying the appropriate data-geo-layer-type="geojson"
attribute

  CountriesOfTheWorld GeoJSON
Including CSV Marker features on your maps with GEO5 simply requires the inclusion of the data-geo-type="featureLayer" and specifying the appropriate data-geo-layer-type="csv" attribute
In this example, the GeoCSV content in included directly within the content of a PRE tag in the HTML, demonstrating GEO5's capability to enrich existing HTML with spatial content.
Is achieved simply through the following code...

48.8566,2.3522,París - Capital of France 40.4168,-3.7038,Madrid - Capital of Spain 41.9015,12.4608,Rome - Capital of Italy 37.9837,23.7293,Athens - Capital of Greece

Including GPX track data on your maps with GEO5 simply requires the inclusion of the data-geo-type="featureLayer" and specifying the appropriate data-geo-layer-type="gpx" attribute.

 GPS track from California International Marathon
Including KML content on your maps with GEO5 simply requires the inclusion of the data-geo-type="featureLayer" and specifying the appropriate data-geo-layer-type="kml" attribute.

 Simple KML Features example
In addition to providing seamless integration of your spatial content with your HTML applications, GEO5 provides a comprehensive binding capablilty which allows you to customize most components of the standard Map interface via HTML inclusions.
GEO5 also provides a comprehensive 2-Way binding mechanism (based upon Knockout.js) which allows you to directly bind HTML elements to Map and Layer properties in a 2-Way fashion. This method of binding is specified utilising HTML5 data-* attributes and produces HTML interfaces which allow you to update map/layer properties without coding effort. Likewise, any changes in the map/layer properties which occur will be reflected automagically in your HTML!
Popup information windows for the features on your layers are an integral part of any GIS application. GEO5 provides sensible default templates for popups on all of your Operational Layers. Sometimes, however, sensible is not enough.
You can provide templates for your Popup InfoWindows by specifing the HTML content for the popup within the data-layer-popup-template of the element specifying your layer within your HTML.
In order to provide further flexibility in Popup InfoWindows, you may utilise the popular {Mustache}
style templating syntax to dynamically insert the values of the attributes/properties of the feature for each popup.
ArcGIS Feature Service Layer Showing San-Francisco 311 Incidents on Stamen.Toner basemap
In more compex situations, you can customise the look and feel of your info windows by binding an additional element to the associated layer. Although the element you choose for you custom content may be any HTML element, in order to include complex templates in your application with polluting the visual HTML, it is recommended to use the SCRIPT
element with a type attribute other than type="text/javascript". To provide additional semantic context to your HTML, it is recommended that you use the format type="geo/content-type"
For moderately complex Popup Content, you can use the familiar {Mustache}
style of templating within a SCRIPT tag as below:
<div id="mapWithPopup" style="height:350px" data-geo-type="map" data-geo-basemap="None" data-geo-centre="45.52751668442124, -122.67175197601318" data-geo-zoom=14

For additionally complex HTML templating that go beyond the capability of {Mustache}
templating, GEO5 allows you to specify Popup Templates with a Javascript function block which is called for each Feature rendered to your layer.
This script block should utilise the attributes of the passed-in feature (passed as a parameter named properties) and return a HTML string to be utilised for the popup of the associated feature.
In a manner similar to mustache templated popups, you may included the Javascript body of your templating function within a SCRIPT tag as below:<div id="mapWithPopup" style="height:350px" data-geo-type="map" data-geo-basemap="None" data-geo-centre="45.52751668442124, -122.67175197601318" data-geo-zoom=14

GEO5 provides the default capability to honour the Symbology options of your ArcGIS Feature Layers. Applying your styles for images, line styleing coloring and fills based upon the hard work you have performed within ArcGIS Desktop.
As well as this useful capability, GEO5 allows you to utilise a standard JSON based styling language to dynamically style any of your Vector Layers.
Compelling, dynamically styled vector features can be created within the browser without the need for Javascript coding via the use of GEO5's GeoStyle objects
In the previous map example, the bike routes are dynamically styled in the browser based upon a Unique Value classification.
The geoStyle code utilised to achieve this is included below:

Symbology for a layer can be defined a few different ways including single
, unique
and range
. If no symbology is defined the default Leaflet vector styles will be used.
When instantiating a new layer, use one of the options below when setting the symbology
option value.
The single
type displays all features with the same symbology.
{ type: "single", // Defines the symbology as a single type of representation for all features vectorOptions: { // Leaflet Path options for all features fillColor: "#46461f", fillOpacity: 0.5, weight: 4, color: "#ff7800" } }
The unique
type displays features with the same attibute values with the same symbology. This is helpful when you have a handful of discrete values for which you want to define symbology.
{ type: "unique", // Defines the symbology as a unique type where features with an attribute of a specific value are symbolized the same way property: "DISTRICT", // The property (field, attribute) to use for defining unique values and styles values: [ // An array of values to set symbology. Each value has a specific symbology { value: "A", // If feature.properties.DISTRICT == "A" vectorOptions: { // Use these Leaflet Path options for features matching fillColor: "#6600FF", fillOpacity: 0.6, color: "#666666", opacity: 0.8, weight: 1 } }, { value: "B", vectorOptions: { fillColor: "#660066", fillOpacity: 0.6, color: "#666666", opacity: 0.8, weight: 1 } }, { value: "C", vectorOptions: { fillColor: "#FF9900", fillOpacity: 0.6, color: "#666666", opacity: 0.8, weight: 1 } } ] }
The range
type tests values to see if they are within a specified range and symbolizes them accordingly. This is helpful for datasets that have values with lots of individual values like population counts per county in the US or in this example, vehicle speeds.
{ type: "range", // Defines the symbology as a range type where values above a minimum and below a maximum value are symbolized the same way property: "SPEED", // The property (field, attribute) to use for defining range values and styles ranges: [ // An array of value ranges to set symbology. Each value range has a specific symbology. { range: [1, 20], // if feature.properties.SPEED >= 1 AND feature.properties.SPEED <= 20 vectorOptions: { // Use these Leaflet Path options for features with values in this range icon: new customIcon({ iconUrl: "../../docs-demo/img/markers/bus-brown.png" }) } },{ range: [21, 100], vectorOptions: { icon: new customIcon({ iconUrl: "../../docs-demo/img/markers/bus-green.png" }) } } ] }
GEO5 implements 2-way DataBinding through the use of KnockoutJS. For a complete guide to the data binding language syntax and capability please see the KnockoutJS website.
DataBinding works by attatching observers to the properties and methods of a Data Model and updating HTML DOM Elements which are associated with them. 2-Way binding also observes any changes to HTML DOM elements and populates the associated property on the bound DataModel (Object).
GEO5 automates the task of binding HTML elements in your page to the Map, Layer and Feature objects you have defined with GEO5. With full 2-way capability, this allows you to attatch, for instance, a HTML input element (CSS3 styled as a Slider of course!) to the Zoom property of the map to provide an instant Zoom Slider control for your maps.
Similarly, you could bind an accordion panel to the Layers property of the map to produce an interactive legend capable of controlling transparency and visibility; or you might choose to bind a HTML Table to the Features collection of a filtered Feature Service to provide an interactive tabular view of the features on your map.
The bounds of what you can create with 2-way bound elements within your HTML are limited only by imagination. The ease at which both the physical Map and bound elements update in reaction to changes in the other without any need to write Javascript code mean that GeoEnabled content can be created by authors rather than developers utilising more common tools such as Bloggin Platforms / CMS.
This also means that content can be enriched in-situ within existing documetns without the need to alter layout. Even with javascript disabled or no map ever displayed, the additional information included in your content will mean that Spatial Search engines can more accurately index and find the exact content your audience are looking for.
LOOK MA', NO JAVASCRIPT! The following display was created without the need for any coding experience or Javascript code:
.. created simply with the following HTML markup:

Map Properties
 Zoom: <input type="text" id="txtMapZoom" data-bind="value: zoom, valueUpdate:'keypress'" />
Centre

 Latitude:  , Longitude:

Mouse Location

 Latitude:  , Longitude:

Making a Layer visibility display? .. Easy with GEO5!
...Done like this (did i forget the javascript? .. no!) :

 <input type="checkbox" data-bind="checked: visible"> </input>

 <input type="checkbox" data-bind="checked: visible"> </input>

 <input type="checkbox" data-bind="checked: visible"> </input>

In the same way in which you can automatically bind your HTML to the Map
and Layer
objects you can also bind your HTML elements directly to the Features
on your Vector layers.
Utilising this technique you can produce dynamic displays which have multiple representations of your spatial data.
| Capital Name |
|---|
Created simply with the following markup:

48.8566,2.3522,París - Capital of France 40.4168,-3.7038,Madrid - Capital of Spain 41.9015,12.4608,Rome - Capital of Italy 37.9837,23.7293,Athens - Capital of Greece

 Capital Name

See a complete demo of feature data-binding for ArcGIS Layers here
See a complete demo of feature data-binding for GeoJSON Layers here
Embedding geographic information in your page follows the same easy pattern as all other GEO5 functionality - include an attribute on your existing HTML.
GEO5 allows you to easily enrich your existing HTML with geographic information without the need for a visual map. In this way, your existing content can be made searchable through Spatial means.
GEO5 can enhance the experience of your users with the geographic information you include by providing popup maps, navigation instructions and a wide variety of other tools simply through the inclusion of geo attributes on your HTML.


Some very basic colors. More...
#include <Color.h>
Static Public Attributes | |
| static color3f const | White = color3f(1, 1, 1) |
| static color3f const | Grey = color3f(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f) |
| static color3f const | Black = color3f(0, 0, 0) |
| static color3f const | Red = color3f(1, 0, 0) |
| static color3f const | Orange = color3f(1, 0.5f, 0) |
| static color3f const | Yellow = color3f(1, 1, 0) |
| static color3f const | Green = color3f(0, 1, 0) |
| static color3f const | Cyan = color3f(0, 1, 1) |
| static color3f const | Blue = color3f(0, 0, 1) |
| static color3f const | Magenta = color3f(1, 0, 1) |
Some very basic colors.
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AWS Glue Connection ConnectionInput
The
ConnectionInput
property type specifies the AWS Glue connection to create.
ConnectionInput
is a property of the AWS::Glue::Connection resource.
Syntax
To declare this entity in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax:
JSON
{ "Description" :
String
, "ConnectionType" :String
, "MatchCriteria" : [String
, ... ], "PhysicalConnectionRequirements" : PhysicalConnectionRequirements, "ConnectionProperties" :JSON object
, "Name" :String
}
YAML
Description:
String
ConnectionType:String
MatchCriteria: -String
PhysicalConnectionRequirements: PhysicalConnectionRequirements ConnectionProperties:JSON object
Name:String
Properties
For more information, see ConnectionInput Structure in the AWS Glue Developer Guide.
Description
-
The description of the connection.
Required: No
Type: String
Update requires: No interruption
ConnectionType
-
The type of the connection. Valid values are
JDBC
orSFTP
.Required: Yes
Type: String
Update requires: No interruption
MatchCriteria
-
A list of UTF-8 strings that specify the criteria that you can use in selecting this connection.
Required: Yes
Type: List of String values
Update requires: No interruption
PhysicalConnectionRequirements
-
A map of physical connection requirements that are needed to make the connection, such as VPC and SecurityGroup.
Required: Yes
Type: PhysicalConnectionRequirements
Update requires: No interruption
ConnectionProperties
-
UTF-8 string–to–UTF-8 string key-value pairs that specify the parameters for this connection.
Required: Yes
Type: JSON object
Update requires: No interruption
Name
-
The name of the connection.
Required: No
Type: String
Update requires: Replacement


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But if you want privacy you have something to hide! Not true. You don’t hand over records of everywhere you go in reality, nor documents, or details of medical conditions etc., their is a genuine use case for privacy in the modern world which is sadly being eroded. I just watched ABC news repeat on Sky News, and it reported of the FBI sending letters out asking for information from librarys, banks and every institution inbetween. It involved no court, no checks and balances, nothing. Tor is also used by the law itself, to conceal government surveillance of illegal activity (for example, child pornography). So not only is Tor needed, but it can extend to everything online, Instant Messaging. Tor limits abuse with a high degree of success and it is cross platform, on Linux, Windows and Mac. Get it here: Tor.eff.org


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Kernel low-rank approximations¶
Incomplete Cholesky Decomposition¶
Incomplete Cholesky Decomposition (CSI) learns low-rank kernel matrix approximation with pivot selection based on lower-bound of the gain of approximation error.
- Fine and K. Scheinberg, Efficient SVM Training Using Low-Rank Kernel Representations, J. Mach. Learn. Res., vol. 2, pp. 243-264, 2001.
Given a kernel matrix \(\mathbf{K} \in \mathbb{R}^{n\ x\ n}\) find a low-rank approximation \(\mathbf{G} \in \mathbb{R}^{n\ x\ k}\).
-
class
mklaren.projection.icd.
ICD
(rank, eps=1e-10, mode='norm_bound')¶ Variables: G – ( numpy.ndarray
) Low-rank approximation.-
__init__
(rank, eps=1e-10, mode='norm_bound')¶ Parameters: - rank – (
int
) Maximal decomposition rank. - eps – (
float
) Tolerance lower bound.
- rank – (
-
__call__
(i, j)¶ Access portions of the combined kernel matrix at indices i, j.
Parameters: - i – (
int
) or (numpy.ndarray
) Index/indices of data points(s). - j – (
int
) or (numpy.ndarray
) Index/indices of data points(s).
Returns: (
numpy.ndarray
) Value of the kernel matrix for i, j.- i – (
-
__getitem__
(item)¶ Access portions of the kernel matrix generated by
kernel
.Parameters: item – ( tuple
) pair of: indices or list of indices or (numpy.ndarray
) or (slice
) to address portions of the kernel matrix.Returns: ( numpy.ndarray
) Value of the kernel matrix for item.
-
fit
(K)¶ Learn a low-rank kernel approximation.
Parameters: K – ( numpy.ndarray
) or of (Kinterface
). The kernel to be approximated with G.
-
Cholesky with Side Information¶
Cholesky with Side Information (CSI) learns low-rank kernel matrix approximation with respect ot regression targets or class labels.
- Bach and M. I. Jordan, “Predictive low-rank decomposition for kernel methods,” Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Machine learning - ICML 2005. ACM Press, New York, New York, USA, pp. 33-40, 2005.
Given a kernel matrix \(\mathbf{K} \in \mathbb{R}^{n\ x\ n}\) and the targets \(\mathbf{y} \in \mathbb{R}^{n}\), find a low-rank approximation \(\mathbf{G} \in \mathbb{R}^{n\ x\ k}\).
The implementation is based on the MATLAB/octave code provided by authors. It assumes an octave
executable in the systems path and the oct2py
Python module.
-
class
mklaren.projection.csi.
CSI
(rank=40, kappa=0.99, centering=1, delta=40, eps=1e-20)¶ Variables: - G – (
numpy.ndarray
) Low-rank approximation. - Q – (
numpy.ndarray
) QR decomposition ofG
(Q matrix). - R – (
numpy.ndarray
) QR decomposition ofG
(R matrix).
-
__init__
(rank=40, kappa=0.99, centering=1, delta=40, eps=1e-20)¶ Parameters: - rank – (
int
) Maximal decomposition rank. - kappa – (
float
) Trade-off accuracy vs. predictive gain. - centering – (
int
) 0 or 1, Centering of the kernel matrix. - delta – (
int
) Number of look-ahead columns. - eps – (
float
) Tolerance lower bound.
- rank – (
-
__call__
(i, j)¶ Access portions of the combined kernel matrix at indices i, j.
Parameters: - i – (
int
) or (numpy.ndarray
) Index/indices of data points(s). - j – (
int
) or (numpy.ndarray
) Index/indices of data points(s).
Returns: (
numpy.ndarray
) Value of the kernel matrix for i, j.- i – (
-
__getitem__
(item)¶ Access portions of the kernel matrix generated by
kernel
.Parameters: item – ( tuple
) pair of: indices or list of indices or (numpy.ndarray
) or (slice
) to address portions of the kernel matrix.Returns: ( numpy.ndarray
) Value of the kernel matrix for item.
-
fit
(K, y)¶ Learn a low-rank kernel approximation.
Parameters: - K – (
numpy.ndarray
) or of (Kinterface
). The kernel to be approximated with G. - y – (
numpy.ndarray
) Class labels \(y_i \in {-1, 1}\) or regression targets.
- K – (
- G – (
The Nystrom approximation¶
The Nystrom method learns a low-rank approximation of the kernel by evaluating the kernel function at a subset of data points.
- Williams and M. Seeger, “Using the Nystrom method to speed up kernel machines,” in Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2001, no. EPFL-CONF.161322, pp. 682-688.
- Alaoui and M. Mahoney, “Fast Randomized Kernel Methods With Statistical Guarantees”, arXiv, 2001.
Given a kernel matrix \(\mathbf{K} \in \mathbb{R}^{n\ x\ n}\) and an active set \(\mathcal{A}\), the kernel matrix is approximated as
or in terms of \(\mathbf{G}\):
-
class
mklaren.projection.nystrom.
Nystrom
(rank=10, random_state=None, lbd=0, verbose=False)¶ Variables: - K – (
Kinterface
) or (numpy.ndarray
) the kernel matrix. - active_set – The selected avtive set of indices.
- K_SS_i – (
numpy.ndarray
) the inverse kernel of the active set. - K_XS – (
numpy.ndarray
) the kernel of the active set and the full data set. - G – (
numpy.ndarray
) Low-rank approximation.
-
__init__
(rank=10, random_state=None, lbd=0, verbose=False)¶ Parameters: - rank – (
int
) Maximal decomposition rank. - lbd – (
float
) regularization parameter (to be used in Kernel Ridge Regression).
:param verbose (
bool
) Set verbosity.- rank – (
-
fit
(K, inxs=None)¶ Fit approximation to the kernel function / matrix.
Parameters: - K – (
numpy.ndarray
) or of (Kinterface
). The kernel to be approximated with G. - inxs – (
list
) A predefined active set. If None, it is selected randomly, else use specified inputs and override therank
setting.
- K – (
-
leverage_scores
(K)¶ Compute leverage scores for matrix K and regularization parameter lbd.
Parameters: K – ( numpy.ndarray
) or of (Kinterface
). The kernel to be approximated with G.Returns: ( numpy.ndarray
) a vector of leverage scores to determine a sampling distribution.
-
predict
(X=None, inxs=None)¶ Predict values of the kernel for a test set.
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- Inherits:
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Abstract
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- Abstract
- Concurrent::Actor::Behaviour::Linking
- Defined in:
- lib/concurrent/actor/behaviour/linking.rb
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Links the actor to other actors and sends actor's events to them,
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Instance Attribute Summary (collapse)
- - (undocumented) core inherited from Abstract readonly
- - (undocumented) subsequent inherited from Abstract readonly
Instance Method Summary (collapse)
-
- (Linking) initialize(core, subsequent, core_options)
constructor
A new instance of Linking.
- - (undocumented) link(ref)
- - (undocumented) on_envelope(envelope)
- - (undocumented) on_event(public, event)
- - (undocumented) unlink(ref)
Constructor Details
- (Linking) initialize(core, subsequent, core_options)
Returns a new instance of Linking
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# File 'lib/concurrent/actor/behaviour/linking.rb', line 43 def initialize(core, subsequent, ) super core, subsequent, @linked = Set.new @linked.add Actor.current if [:link] != false end |
Instance Attribute Details
- (undocumented) core (readonly) Originally defined in class Abstract
- (undocumented) subsequent (readonly) Originally defined in class Abstract
Instance Method Details
- (undocumented) link(ref)
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# File 'lib/concurrent/actor/behaviour/linking.rb', line 49 def on_envelope(envelope) case envelope. when :link link envelope.sender when :unlink unlink envelope.sender when :linked? @linked.include? envelope.sender when :linked @linked.to_a else pass envelope end end |
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# File 'lib/concurrent/actor/behaviour/linking.rb', line 74 def on_event(public, event) event_name, _ = event @linked.each { |a| a << event } if public @linked.clear if event_name == :terminated super public, event end |
- (undocumented) unlink(ref)
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# File 'lib/concurrent/actor/behaviour/linking.rb', line 69 def unlink(ref) @linked.delete(ref) true end |


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dynamics.
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Tutorials: Tutorials that describe how to use Gazebo and implement your own simulations.
Wiki: A collection of user supported documentation.
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papers?  ‘I felt as if there might be eyes peeping at me,
watching and hoping I’d go out and leave the papers behind. I’ve got them under
my jersey, just here!’ And he patted the top of his stomach.
‘Oh
- so that’s why you look as if you’ve had too much breakfast!’ said George. ‘Well
- what shall our plans be?’
‘We’d
better make out the false papers straight away, with figures and diagrams,’
said Julian. ‘Just in case the thieves come sooner than we think. Tinker, we’d
better go into your house to do those. If we go to George’s, her father might
spot us, and wonder what on earth we were doing. We’d probably be sent off,
anyway, because of the scarlet-fever business.’
‘Well,
what about my father?’ said Tinker. ‘He might spot us too. Anyway, he’s not
keen on my having anyone there this week, because he’s so busy with his new
invention. It’s awfully good, and...’
‘Tinker
- don’t start spilling beans again!’ said Julian, warningly. ‘I say it would be
best to go to your house.’
‘What
about me going indoors and bringing out Dad’s big drawing-board, and some of
his paper, and his mapping pens and ink, and doing the diagrams and things out
here in the tent?’ said Tinker. ‘Honestly, I never know when Dad is going to
come into my room. He’d wonder what on earth we were doing if he found us all
there! We can have a good look at the papers I’ve got under my coat, and do a
whole lot in the same style - not the same figures, naturally - and we could do
some fancy diagrams too.’
‘All
right,’ said Julian, giving way, as he saw that Tinker was genuinely afraid
that his father might see them making the false papers. ‘Go and get the
drawing-board and come back with it, and anything else we’ll need. You go with
him, George.’
‘Right,’
said George, and she and Tinker went up Tinker’s garden to the house. Tinker
scouted round to see if his father was anywhere about, but couldn’t see him. He
found a large drawing-board, some big sheets of paper used by his father for
working out his figures, and a book of odd, but easy-to-copy diagrams. He also
brought mapping pens, Indian ink and blotting paper, and even remembered
drawing-pins to pin the sheets of paper to the board. George carried half the
things, and kept a sharp look-out for Tinker’s father.
‘It’s
all right. He’s asleep somewhere - can’t you hear that noise?’ asked Tinker;
and sure enough George could - a gentle snoring from some room not far off!
They
went back down the garden and over the fence, handing everything to the others
before they climbed over. ‘Good!’ said Julian. ‘Now we can produce some
beautiful charts of figures that mean absolutely nothing at all - and diagrams
that will look perfect and not mean a thing either!’
‘Better
come into the tent,’ said George. ‘If anyone wanders down from the circus camp,
they might ask us what we’re doing.’
So
they all went into the boys’ big tent, which was the bigger one, Timmy too, and
Mischief, who was delighted to be with the big dog. Julian soon set to work,
though he found the space rather cramped. They were all watching him in
admiration as he set out rows of beautiful, meaningless figures when Timmy
suddenly gave a deep growl, and all his hackles rose up on his neck.
Julian
turned the drawing-board over at once, and sat on it. The canvas doorway of the
tent was pulled aside and in poked the grinning face of Charlie the Chimp!
‘Oh,
it’s you, Charlie!’ said Julian. ‘Well, well, well, and how are you today?’
The
chimpanzee grinned even more widely, and held out his hand. Julian shook it
solemnly, and the chimpanzee went carefully all round the tent, shaking hands
with everyone.
‘Sit
down, Charlie,’ said Dick. ‘I suppose you’ve let yourself out of your cage as
usual, and come to see what we’ve got for our dinner. Well, you’ll be glad to
hear we’ve got enough for you as well as ourselves.’
Charlie
squashed himself between Timmy and Tinker, and with much interest watched
Julian at work with his pen and ink. ‘I bet that chimp could draw, if you gave
him a piece of paper and a pencil,’ said Anne.
So,
to keep him quiet, he was given a pencil, and a notebook. He at once began to
scribble in it very earnestly.
‘Goodness
- he’s doing a whole lot of funny figures,’ said Anne. ‘He’s trying to copy
you, Ju!’
‘If
he’s not careful, I’ll hand the whole job over to him!’ said Julian, with a
chuckle. ‘George, let’s talk about your plans for tonight. I think if you are
going over to Kirrin Island to hide those papers you’ve planned to hide, you
must take Timmy with you.’
‘Oh,
I will!’ said George. ‘Not that there will be a single soul on the island, but
I’d like old Tim just for company. I’ll take the papers straight to the island,
land, and hide them.’
‘Where?’
asked Julian.
‘Oh,
I’ll decide that when I’m there,’ said George. ‘Somewhere cunning! I know my
own little island from top to bottom. And there those papers will stay until
all danger is past. We’ll let Professor Hayling think he has hidden them
somewhere himself, and forgotten where! It will be fun to row across to my
island, at night, with Timmy.’
‘The
thieves can make do with my figures and diagrams if they come to the tower room
again,’ said Julian. ‘Don’t they look professional?’
They
certainly did! Everyone looked at the neat figures and carefully drawn diagrams
with admiration.
Timmy
suddenly sat up and gave a deep growl again. Charlie the Chimp patted him as if
to say, ‘What’s wrong, old boy?’ but Timmy took no notice and went on growling.
He suddenly shot out of the tent, and there was a shout from someone outside.
‘Get off! Get down! GET DOWN!’
George
swung back the tent opening. Mr Wooh was there, looking extremely frightened,
as Timmy growled menacingly round his ankles. Charlie the chimp ran up to him
on all fours, and, angry because Timmy was snarling at his friend, showed his
teeth suddenly at the big dog. George was terrified. ‘Don’t let them fight!’
she cried, afraid that Timmy would get decidedly the worst of it. Charlie was
jumping up and down in a most alarming way.
‘Charleee!’
said Mr Wooh in his deep voice. ‘Charleee!’
And
Charlie stopped jumping up and down and making horrible noises, and leapt
straight on to Mr Wooh’s back, putting his arms round his neck.
Mr
Wooh bowed courteously to them all. ‘I trust I have not disturbed you, my
friends,’ he said, in his foreign-sounding voice. ‘I now take a little walk
with my friend Charleee. You come again to see our show, I hope. Yes? No?’
‘Probably,’
said Dick, noticing that the magician had taken a quick and interested look at
Julian’s figures and diagrams. Julian covered them up immediately, as if he
didn’t want the magician to see them. He had seen something in the man’s eyes
that puzzled him. Could Mr Wooh possibly have had anything to do with the theft
of the papers the night before? After all, he was a wizard at figures himself -
he might be able to read the Professor’s figures and diagrams and understand
them perfectly. Well - he wouldn’t gather much from the ones Julian was now
doing - they were more or less nonsense made up by Julian himself to deceive
anyone interested in the real ones.
‘I
interrupt you? Pardon me!’ said Mr Wooh, and bowed himself politely away from
the group in the tent. Charlie the Chimp followed him, hoping that Mischief
would too, so that they could have a game. But Mischief didn’t want to. He
didn’t like Mr Wooh.
‘Well,
I didn’t realize that anyone from the circus would walk down the field so
quietly, and be able to hear what we were saying inside the tent,’ said Julian,
worried.
‘It
might,’ said Julian. ‘Do you think he heard what George said about going over
to Kirrin Island with the other papers - the valuable ones that the thieves
didn’t see in the tower room last night? I wouldn’t let George go if I thought
he had heard. In fact, I think she’d better not go. She might run into danger.’
‘Don’t
be silly, Ju,’ said George. ‘I am going. And Timmy will be with me.’
‘You
heard what I said, George. You are not to go!’ said Julian. ‘I’ll take the
papers and hide them on the island. I’ll get them when it’s dark, fairly late.
I’ll cycle over to Kirrin and untie the boat you keep there, and row over to
the island.’
‘All
right, Julian,’ said George, astonishingly meekly. ‘Shall we have a meal now?
We’ve only to open the tins, and empty the tomatoes and lettuces out of the
basket there. And the drinks are in that cool corner over there.’
‘Right,’
said Julian, glad that George had given way to him so easily. He would go
across in George’s boat and find a good hiding-place. If danger was about, he
could deal with it better than George could. After all, she was only a girl!
Yes,
Julian, she is - but, as you’ve often said, she’s just as brave as a boy. Don’t
be too sure about tonight!
Chapter
Fourteen
LADDERS
- AND A LOT OF FUN!
The
children stared after Mr Wooh and the chimpanzee. They saw Charlie pick up two
empty buckets, one in each strong paw, and race off to the right with them.
‘Where’s
he going?’ said Anne, astonished at the rate he was running along.
‘I
bet he’s going to get some water from the stream in those pails, and take them
to whoever washes down the horses,’ said George. She was right! Charlie soon
came back again, walking this time, holding a heavy pail of water in each hand!
‘Well,
I must say that chimpanzee is jolly useful!’ said Dick. ‘Look - there’s Madelon
who trains those beautiful horses that paraded round the ring last night -
she’s wearing old trousers this morning, she looks quite different. There -
Charlie has set the pails of water down beside her. I bet that as soon as she
wants any more water, he’ll be off again to the stream!’
‘I
rather like old Charlie,’ said Anne. ‘I didn’t at first - but now I do. I wish
he didn’t belong to Mr Wooh.’
Julian
stood up, looking down at the paper on which he had so carefully written lines
of small figures and drawn many peculiar diagrams. ‘I somehow feel this isn’t
much good now,’ he said. ‘I think Mr Wooh must have guessed it was all a
make-up as soon as he saw it. He gave himself away a bit, though-I saw him looking
at the paper in a rather startled way, as if he’d seen something very like it
very recently indeed!’
‘So
he had, the wretch, if he’d sent someone up to get my Dad’s papers out of the
tower room!’ said Tinker. ‘I say - what about having a look round the circus,
to see if we can spot a ladder anywhere - one tall enough to reach the tower
room!’
‘Good
idea!’ said Dick. ‘Come on - we’ll go now. Chuck that drawing-board and diagram
paper over our fence, Ju. I hardly think it’s worth your while to finish it.’
The
Five, with Tinker and Mischief, wandered down the field to where the circus was
encamped. Dick spotted a ladder, lying in the grass, and nudged Julian.
‘Julian!
See that? Would it reach the tower?’ Julian walked over to it. It certainly was
very, very long - but would it be long enough? No - he didn’t think it would.
Still - he might as well find out who owned it. At that moment up came the
Boneless Man, walking perfectly. He grinned at the children - and then suddenly
put all his double-joints to work, bent his knees into peculiar positions,
twisted his head round so that he was looking over his own back, and then bent
his double-jointed arms the wrong way, so that he looked very peculiar indeed!
‘Don’t!
I don’t like it!’ said Anne. ‘You look so queer and strange! Why are you called
the Boneless Wonder?
The
Boneless Man seemed suddenly to lose all his bones, and crumpled up on the grass
in a funny heap. The children couldn’t help laughing. He didn’t look as if he
had any bones at all then!
‘Er
- can you climb ladders if you’re double-jointed?’ asked Julian, suddenly.
‘Of
course!’ said the Boneless Man. ‘Run up them backwards, forwards, sideways -
any way you like.’
‘Is
that your ladder, then?’ asked Dick, nodding his head towards the ladder in the
grass.
‘Well
- I use it, but so does everyone else!’ said the Boneless Man, turning his head
the wrong way round, so that it seemed as if it was put on back to front. It
was odd to speak to someone whose head did that - one minute they were talking
to his face, the next to the back of his head!
‘I
wish you wouldn’t do that,’ said Anne. ‘It makes me feel giddy.’
‘Do
you use that ladder to put the flag on the top of the circus tent?’ asked Dick.
‘It doesn’t look long enough for that.’
‘It
isn’t,’ said the Boneless Man, turning his head the right way round, much to
Anne’s relief. ‘There’s a much longer one over there - it takes three men to carry
it, it’s so heavy - but the centre circus pole is very tall, as you see. One
man couldn’t possibly carry the long ladder.’
The
children looked at one another. That ruled out the very long ladder too, then.
If it needed three men to carry it, Jenny would certainly have heard a lot more
noise last night!
‘Are
there any more ladders in the circus camp?’
‘No
- just the two. Why? Thinking of buying one?’ said the Boneless Man. ‘I must
go. The Boss is beckoning to me.’ Off he went, walking in a most peculiar
fashion, using his double joints for all he was worth!
‘What
about the acrobats?’ said Julian. ‘They must be used to climbing and clambering
everywhere. I wonder if any of them could have climbed the wall?’
‘I
don’t think so,’ said Tinker. ‘I had a good look at it this morning - and
although there is a kind of creeper climbing up the wall, it stops half-way -
and above that there’s just the stone wall. Even an acrobat would have to have
some help up the tower wall!’
‘Could
the clowns have found a way?’ said George. ‘No - I suppose they’re not as good
even as the acrobats at climbing. I don’t believe the thief could have been
anyone from the circus after all. Look - what’s that on the ground over there -
outside that tent?’
They
all went over to see. It looked like a pile of dark-grey fur. George touched it
with her toe. ‘Oh - I know what it is - the donkey-skin!’
‘Golly
- so it is!’ cried Tinker in delight, and picked it up - or tried to. It was
much too heavy for him to hold up all of it.
In
a trice Dick and George were inside that donkey-skin! Dick had the head, and
found that he could see quite well where he was going, for the donkey-neck had
neat eye-holes in it - the head itself was stuffed with paper. George was the
back legs, and kicked up her feet and made the donkey look extremely lively.
The others roared with laughter.
Someone
shouted loudly. ‘Hey - you leave that donkey-skin alone!’
It
was Jeremy. He came running up, looking furious. He had a stick in his hand,
and hit out at the donkey’s hind parts, giving poor George a good old whack,
and making her yell.
‘Hey!
Stop that, it hurt!’
Tinker
looked furiously at Jeremy.  ‘Dick and
George are in the donkey-skin. Put down that stick!’
But
Jeremy gave the donkey’s hind legs another whack and George yelled again.
Tinker gave a shout too, and flung himself on Jeremy, trying to get the stick
out of his hand. The boy struggled, holding on to the stick, but Tinker gave
him a straight blow on the chest, and down he went!
‘Ha!
I said I’d knock you down sometime, and I have!’ yelled Tinker. ‘Get up and
fight. I’ll teach you to hit a girl!’
‘Now
stop it, Tinker,’ said Julian. ‘How could he have known George was inside?  He looks as if
he’s on his way now!’
Jeremy
was up now, and danced round Tinker with doubled fists. Before either boy could
exchange a blow, Grandad’s great voice came to them.
‘NOW
THEN! STOP IT!’
Jeremy
swung his fist at Tinker, who dodged, and then in his turn hit out at Jeremy,
who ran back - straight into old Grandad, who at once clutched him.
By
this time George and Dick were out of the donkey-skin, looking rather ashamed
of themselves. Old Grandad grinned at them, still holding on to the furious
Jeremy. ‘Fight’s off,’ said Grandad to Tinker and Jeremy.
However,
neither of the boys wanted to take on old Grandad. He might be old, but he
could still give some mighty slaps, as Jeremy very well knew. They stood
staring at one another, looking rather sheepish.
‘Go
on - shake hands and be friends,’ said Grandad. ‘Quick, now, or I’ll do a
little fighting myself!’
Tinker
held out his hand just as Jeremy held out his. They shook, grinning at one
another. ‘That’s right!’ said old Grandad. ‘No harm done. No bones broken.
You’re quits now, so no more knocking each other about.’
‘Right,
Grandad,’ said Jeremy, giving him a friendly punch. The old man turned to Dick
and George. ‘And if you want to borrow that donkey-skin, you’re welcome,’ said
old Grandad. ‘But it’s manners to ask the owner’s permission first.’
‘Yes,
sir. Sorry, sir,’ said Dick, grinning. He wondered what Professor Hayling and
Jenny would say if he and George did borrow it, and galloped into Hollow House
at top speed. But no - he decided reluctantly that Jenny might be scared stiff
and give notice, and that would never do. She wouldn’t at all like being chased
by an apparently mad donkey, nor would Professor Hayling.
Grandad
went off, and Julian spoke to Jeremy, who wasn’t quite sure whether to go or to
stay. ‘We saw old Charlie carrying pails of water for the horses,’ he said. ‘My
word, isn’t he strong!’
Jeremy
grinned, glad to be friends again, and to be able to stay with the Five and
Tinker. They wandered all round the field together, looking at the magnificent
horses and at Dead-Shot Dick doing a little practising at shooting and then
watched one small acrobat practising amazing jumps and somersaults.
Mischief
the monkey came with them. He was absolutely at home with everyone in the
circus now, man, woman or animal. He leapt on to the horses’ backs, and they
didn’t mind! He pretended to help Charlie the Chimp to carry one of the pails
of water - he ran off with Dead-Shot Dick’s cap. He went into the chimp’s cage
and cuddled up in the straw with him, scrabbling about as if the cage belonged
to him. He even went into Grandad’s tent and came out with a small bottle of
lemonade! He couldn’t get the top off, and took it to Charlie, who was watching
near by! Charlie promptly forced it off with his strong front paws - and then,
to Mischief’s disgust, tipped up the bottle, and drank the lot!
Mischief
was very angry indeed. He ran to Charlie’s cage, which was open, and sent the
straw flying everywhere. Charlie sat outside his cage, and enjoyed the fun,
grinning happily.
‘Come
out, Mischief!’ called Tinker. ‘You’re making a nuisance of yourself!’
‘Let
him be,’ said one of the acrobats, who was standing near by. ‘Old Charlie
enjoys a bit of temper - when it’s someone else’s! Look at him sitting grinning
there.’
They
watched for a few seconds more, to make sure that Mischief wasn’t annoying the
big chimpanzee, and then turned to watch Monty and Winks, the clowns, having an
argument, which ended in Monty throwing water over Winks, and Winks emptying a
basket of rubbish over Monty. What a pair!
When
they turned to see if Mischief was still annoying Charlie, they saw that the
little monkey had left the cage, and was tearing down the field to the fence.
He leapt up, and over, and disappeared.
‘He
must think it’s dinner-time,’ said Tinker, looking at his watch. ‘And golly, so
it is. Buck up everyone, Jenny will be in a fine old fury if we’re really late
- it’s hot dinner today.’
Away
they all went in a hurry. Hot dinner! Over the fence, then, and up the garden
at top speed. They mustn’t keep a hot dinner waiting - or Jenny either!
Chapter
Fifteen
A
HAPPY DAY - AND A SHOCK FOR JULIAN
Tinker
and the Five were two minutes late for their dinner. Jenny was just taking it
in, looking a little grim, as she had not been able to find the children
anywhere. ‘Ah - here you are at last!’ she said. ‘I looked down the garden but
you were nowhere to be seen. It’s a good thing you came in when you did - five
minutes more, and I’d have taken the dinner back again.’
‘Dear
Jenny, you know you wouldn’t,’ said Tinker, giving her a sudden squeeze that
made her squeal. ‘Oh, how good it smells! Mmmmm-Mmmmm!’
‘You
and your Mmmmms!’ said Jenny, pushing Tinker away.  No, Tinker, keep away from me - another squeeze like that and I’ll feel
like a lemon!’
Everyone
laughed at that. Jenny did say the most amusing things. Anne felt sorry that
she hadn’t offered to stay and help her with the dinner. Oh dear - the time
went so tremendously quickly, once they were all out together.
The
talk at dinner-time was very lively. So was Mischief the monkey! He took bits
from everyone’s plate and handed some of them down to Timmy, who was lying
under the table as usual. Timmy appreciated these titbits very much!
‘Well!
I didn’t see a single ladder in the circus camp that was tall enough to reach
up to the tower room,’ said George.
‘No.
If there was one, it was jolly well hidden,’ said Dick. ‘Pass the mustard,
someone!’
‘In
front of you, ass,’ said Julian. ‘I must say I’m beginning to wonder if Mr Wooh
had anything to do with the stealing of your father’s papers, Tinker. I can’t
somehow see him climbing high ladders - he’s so - so...’
‘Polite
and proper,’ said Anne. ‘Actually, I can’t think of anyone in the circus who
would either want the papers, or is nasty enough to steal them. They’re all so
nice.’
‘I
still think Mr Wooh is the most likely one,’ said Julian. ‘He’s interested in
complicated figures and clever inventions. But all the same, I’m beginning to
think I’m wrong. He could NOT have got up to the tower room, as there is no
ladder long enough - and I really doubt if he’d dare to take a ladder into the
courtyard, and risk putting it up to the tower. He might so easily be caught.’
‘Right.
We’ll rule him out,’ said Tinker. ‘But if nobody went up the spiral stairway,
because all the doors were locked, and nobody used a ladder, I don’t see how
those papers disappeared.’
‘Wind
took them out of the window, perhaps?’ suggested Anne. ‘Would that be
possible?’
‘No.
For two reasons,’ said Julian. ‘One is that the window wasn’t wide enough open
for the wind to blow in with enough strength to blow papers out. And secondly,
we’d have been sure to have found some of them down in the courtyard if they’d
been blown out. But we didn’t find a single one there.’
‘Well
- if nobody got through the three locked doors, and nobody got through the
window, How did those papers get stolen?’ demanded George. ‘It would have been
a miracle for those papers to have hopped away by themselves - and I don’t
believe in that kind of miracle!’
There
was a long silence. What a mystery it was! ‘I suppose Tinker’s father couldn’t
possibly have gone walking in his sleep, and taken them, could he?’ asked Anne.
‘Well
- I don’t know if a sleep-walker can unlock doors with the right keys, and
steal his own papers, leaving some on the floor, and then walk carefully down
the spiral stairway still fast asleep, locking all the doors behind him, and
then go to his own bedroom, get into bed, and then wake up in the morning
without remembering a single moment of the whole thing!’ said Julian.
‘No.
It can’t be possible,’ said Dick. ‘Have you ever known your father to walk in
his sleep, Tinker?’
Tinker
considered. ‘No, I can’t say I have,’ he said. ‘He’s a very light sleeper,
usually. No. I don’t believe Dad did all that in his sleep. It was somebody
else.’
‘It
must have been some sort of miracle man, then,’ said George. ‘No ordinary
person could do it. And whoever planned it wanted those papers very, very
badly, or he would never have risked getting them against so many odds.’
‘And
if he wanted them SO VERY badly, he’ll certainly make an effort to get the ones
he left behind under the table,’ said Julian. ‘Good thing we’ve got those! He
will probably try to get up into the tower the same way as he did before - but
goodness knows what it was!’
‘Well
- those papers will be safely out of his way, tonight!’ said George. ‘On my
island!’
‘Yes,’
said Julian. ‘I’ll find a most unlikely hiding-place - somewhere about the
ruined castle, I think. By the way - I hope you haven’t still got them under
your jersey, Tinker.  What have you done with
them?’
‘George
said I’d better give them to her to keep, in case they slipped out of my
jersey,’ said Tinker. ‘You took them, didn’t you, George?’
‘Yes,’
said George. ‘Don’t let’s talk about it any more.’
‘Why
not? The thief’s not here. He can’t be listening to us!’ said Tinker. ‘I
believe you’re cross, George, because Julian won’t let you take the papers
yourself!’
‘Oh,
do shut up, Tinker,’ said George.  Take
him off the table! His manners are getting worse!’
‘They
aren’t - but your temper is!’ said Tinker and promptly received a kick under
the table from Julian. He was about to kick back but thought better of it.
Julian could kick very much harder than he could! He decided to take Mischief
off the table in case George smacked him. He put the little monkey under the
table where Timmy was sitting quietly. Mischief immediately cuddled up to him,
putting his little furry arms round the big dog’s neck. Timmy sniffed him all
over, and then gave him two or three licks.
‘What
shall we do this afternoon?’ asked Dick, when they had all helped Jenny to
clear away and wash-up. ‘What about a bathe in the sea? Is it warm enough?’
‘Not
really. But that doesn’t matter, we always feel jolly warm when we come out of
the water and run about and then rub ourselves down,’ said Anne. ‘Jenny - do
you feel like a bathe?’
‘Good
gracious, no!’ said Jenny, shivering at the thought. ‘I’m a cold mortal, I am.
The thought of going into that cold sea makes me shudder. If you want your
towels, they are all in the airing cupboard. And don’t you be late for tea, if
you want any, because I’ve a lot of ironing to do afterwards.’
‘Right,
Jenny,’ said Tinker, about to give her one of his ‘squeezes’ but thinking
better of it when he saw her warning look. ‘Julian, may I come with you to
Kirrin Island tonight? I’d like a bit of fun.’
‘You
may not,’ said Julian. ‘Anyway, there won’t be any fun.’
‘There
might be if Mr Wooh did hear George say she was taking those papers over,’ said
Tinker. ‘He’d be waiting on the island - and you might be glad to have me with
you!’
‘I
should not be glad to have you with me,’ said Julian. ‘You’d just be in the
way. It would be much easier to look after myself than to see what you were up
to all the time. I am going by myself. Please don’t scowl at me like that, George.’
He
got up from the table and went to look out of the window. ‘Wind’s died down a
bit,’ he said. ‘I think I’ll have a bathe in an hour’s time. If any of you
others want to come, we’ll go down together.’
They
all went down to the beach after a while and bathed, except Mischief, who put
one small paw into the water, gave a howl and scampered back up the beach as
fast as ever he could, afraid that Tinker might catch him and make him go in!
Timmy went in, of course. He swam marvellously, and even gave Tinker a ride on
his back, diving down when the boy felt heavy, so that Tinker suddenly found
himself sprawling in the water! ‘You wretch, Timmy!’ yelled the boy, ‘the
water’s gone up my nose. Wait till I catch you! I’ll put you under!’
But
he couldn’t possibly catch old Timmy, who really enjoyed the joke. The big dog
gave a joyful bark, and swam after George. How he loved being with them all!
The
rest of the day went quickly. Jenny had a fine tea for them, with slices of
ham, and salad, and fruit to end with, and said afterwards that she had time to
play a game of Scrabble with them if they liked. Mischief sat on the table to
watch.
‘I
don’t mind you watching,’ said Anne. ‘But you are NOT to scrabble, Mischief.
You sent all my little ivory discs on the floor last time we played, and I lost
the game.’
Timmy
watched gravely, sitting on a chair beside George. He simply could NOT
understand what made the children play games like this when they could go for a
nice long walk with him. They took pity on him when the game was over and went
out for a two-mile walk along by the sea. How Timmy loved that!
‘I
shall cycle to Kirrin Village as soon as it’s dark,’ announced Julian. ‘I
suppose your boat is tied up in the usual place, George? I’m sorry I can’t take
you with me, but there might be a bit of danger, as we said. However I won’t
run into any if I can help it. I shan’t feel comfortable until those secret
papers are safely out of the way! You can give them to me just before I go,
George.’
Anne
suddenly yawned. ‘Don’t start too late or I shall fall asleep!’ she said. ‘It’s
getting dark already. All that swimming has made me feel tired!’
Dick
yawned too. ‘I’m jolly sleepy as well,’ he said. ‘I shall bed down in our tent
as soon as you’ve gone, Ju. I’ll see you off safely first, papers and all!
You’d better go to your tent, too, girls - you look tired.’
‘Right!’
said Anne. ‘You coming, George?’
‘We’ll
all go,’ said George. ‘Come on, Tinker. Bet you I get over the fence and down
to our tents first! Good night, Jenny. We’re off!’
She
and Anne and Tinker, with Timmy running behind, went off down the darkening
garden. Dick and Julian helped Jenny to tidy up, and to draw all the curtains.
‘Well, good night, Jenny,’ said Dick. ‘All you have to do is to lock the door
behind us and go safely up to bed. We’ll go down to our tents now. Sleep well!’
‘Oh,
I always do,’ said Jenny. ‘Look after yourselves now and don’t get into any
mischief! Hide those papers well, where nobody can find them!’
Julian
and Dick went off down the garden, having heard Jenny carefully locking the
door behind them.
Tinker
and the girls were already over the fence, Mischief on Tinker’s shoulder. Anne
spoke anxiously to George. ‘I do hope Julian will be all right going over to
Kirrin Island,’ she said. ‘I wish he’d take Dick with him.’
‘If
he took anyone it should be me!’ burst out George. ‘It’s my island!’
‘Oh,
don’t be silly, George. The papers would be much safer with Julian,’ said Anne.
‘It would be an awful business for you, cycling by yourself to Kirrin, getting
your boat into the water, and rowing over in the dark!’
‘It
would not!’ said George. ‘If Julian can do it, then so could I. You go into our
tent, Anne, and get ready for bed. I’ll come in a minute, after I’ve taken
Timmy for a run.’
She
waited till Anne had disappeared through the tent opening. Then she went
quietly off by herself in the dark, Timmy trotting beside her, rather
surprised.
Soon
there came the sound of voices, as Julian and Dick reached the fence and leapt
over it. They went to their tent, and found Tinker there, yawning and getting
ready for bed.
Soon
the three boys were all rolled up in their rugs, Mischief cuddled up to Tinker.
After some time Julian sat up and looked at his watch, and then peeped out of
the tent opening. ‘Quite dark!’ he said. ‘But the moon’s coming up, I see. I
think I’ll get the papers from George now, and set off on my bicyde to Kirrin.
I can easily get it out of the shed.’
‘You
know where George keeps her boat,’ said Dick. ‘You won’t have any difficulty in
finding it. Got your torch, Ju?’
‘Yes
- and a new battery,’ said Julian. ‘Look!’
He
switched on his torch. It gave a good, powerful beam. ‘Shan’t miss the island
if I put this on!’ he said. ‘Now - I’ll get those papers. Hey, George - I’m
coming to your tent for the papers!’
He
went over to the girls’ tent. Anne was there, only half awake. She blinked as
Julian’s torch shone into her eyes.
‘George!’
said Julian. ‘Give me those papers now, please - hallo - I say, Anne - where is
George?’
Anne
started all round the tent. George’s rugs were there, piled in an untidy heap;
but there was no George - and no Timmy either!
‘Oh,
Ju! Do you know what George has done - she’s slipped out with the precious
papers - and taken Timmy too! She must have gone to fetch her bike, and ridden
off to Kirrin to get her boat - and row over to Kirrin Island! Julian, whatever
will happen if she rows over and finds somebody waiting to grab those papers
from her!’ Poor Anne was very near to tears.
‘I
could shake her!’ said Julian, very angry indeed. ‘Going off alone like that in
the dark - cycling to Kirrin - rowing over to the island - and back! She must
be mad! Suppose Mr Wooh and his friends are waiting there for her! The - silly
- little - idiot!’
‘Oh,
Julian, quick!
‘Oh please do! Anything might happen to her! Dear, silly old George! Thank
goodness Timmy’s gone with her.’
‘Well,
that’s a blessing, anyway,’ said Julian, still angry. ‘He’ll look after her as
much as he can. My word, I could shake George till her teeth rattled! I thought
she was rather quiet tonight. Thinking out this plan, I suppose!’
He
went up to the house with Dick and Tinker to tell Jenny about George, and then
he and Dick at once went to get their bicycles. This was serious. George had no
right to be out alone at night like this - and go rowing over to Kirrin Island
- ESPECIALLY if there was any chance of someone lying in wait for her!
Jenny
was very worried indeed. She watched the two boys cycling off in the dark.
Tinker begged her to let him go too, but she wouldn’t. ‘You and Mischief would
just be nuisances,’ she said. ‘Oh my word, won’t I shake that rascal of a
George when she gets back.  Well, well - thank goodness Timmy’s
with her. That dog’s as good as half a dozen policemen!’
Chapter
Sixteen
NIGHT
ON KIRRIN ISLAND
It
was certainly very dark when the half-moon went behind the clouds. George was
glad that her bicycle lamp shone so brightly. The shadows in the hedges were
deep and mysterious - ‘as if they hid people ready to jump out at us,’ she said
to Timmy. ‘But you’d go for them at once, wouldn’t you, Timmy!’
Timmy
was too much out of breath to bark an answer. George was going pretty fast, and
he didn’t mean to let her get out of sight. He was sure she shouldn’t be out by
herself on a dark night like this. He couldn’t imagine why she had suddenly
taken it into her head to go for a long night-ride! He raced along, panting.
They
met cars with dazzling head-lamps, and George had to keep pulling to the side.
She was terribly afraid that Timmy might be hit by one of the cars. ‘Oh dear -
I’d never, never forgive myself if anything happened to Timmy,’ she thought. ‘I
half wish I hadn’t set out now. But I’m NOT going to let Julian hide anything
on my island. That’s my job, not his. Timmy darling, PLEASE keep on my left
side. You’ll be safe then.’
So
Timmy kept on her left, still mystified by this sudden journey out into the
night. They came at last to Kirrin Village, where windows were still lighted
here and there. Through the village and on to Kirrin Bay - ah, there was the
bay! The half-moon slid out from behind a cloud and George saw the dark sea,
shining here and there as the moonlight caught the crests of the waves.
‘There’s
my island, look Timmy,’ said George, feeling a swelling of pride as she looked
over the dark heaving sea to a darker stretch, which she knew was Kirrin
Island. ‘My very own island. Waiting for me tonight!’
‘Woof,’
said Timmy, rather quietly, because he really hadn’t any breath to waste. Now
what was George going to do? Why had she come out on this lonely ride without
the others? Timmy was puzzled.
They
came to the stretch of beach where boats were kept. George rode down a ramp to
the beach, jumped off her bicycle, and put it by a bathing-hut in the deep
shadows. No one would see it there. Then she went to stare over the sea at her
island.
She
had only looked for a moment or two when she clutched Timmy’s collar, and gave
an exclamation.
TIMMY!
There’s a light on my island! Look, to the right there. Can you see it? Timmy,
there’s somebody camping there. How DARE they? It’s my island and I don’t allow
anyone on it unless they have my permission.’
Timmy
looked - and yes, he could see the light too. Was it made by a camp-fire - or a
lantern? He couldn’t tell. All he knew was that he didn’t want George to go
over there now. Suppose there were gypsies camping there, who would resent
George coming to turn them off? Or a crowd of ill-mannered young boys who
hadn’t bothered to find out if they were allowed there? They might make things
very unpleasant for George. He pawed at her, trying to make her understand that
he wanted her to go back home with him.
‘No,
Timmy. I’m not going back till I’ve found out who’s there!’ she said. ‘It would
be cowardly to turn back now. And if it’s somebody waiting for me to turn up
with the papers, they can think again. Look - I’m hiding them here under the
tarpaulin in this boat. It would be idiotic to try and hide them on the island
if there’s someone there who might rob me of anything I’ve got - it might be
one of the thieves who climbed in to the tower room, and left some of the
papers behind. If he’s waiting for me, he won’t get any papers!’
George
stuffed the parcel of papers under the tarpaulin as she spoke. ‘It’s Fisherman
Connell’s boat, called Gypsy,’ she said, reading the name on the boat by the
light of her torch. ‘Hc won’t mind me hiding something in it!’
She
covered up the papers with the tarpaulin, and then looked over to the island
again. Yes - that light was still there. Anger welled up in George again, and
she went to look for her own boat, which should be somewhere near where they
were.
‘Here
it is,’ she said to Timmy, who leapt in at once. She ordered him out for she
had to pull the boat down to the water. Fortunately it was a small, light boat
and as the tide was almost fully in, she didn’t have very far to drag it. Timmy
took hold of the rope with his teeth and helped too. At last it was on the water,
bobbing gently about in the dim light of the half-moon. Timmy leapt in, and
soon George was in too, though with very wet feet!
She
took the oars and began to pull away from the shore. ‘Tide’s almost on the
turn,’ she told Timmy. ‘It won’t be too hard a row. Now we can find those
campers and tell them what we think of them. You’re to bark your very loudest
and scare them, Timmy - in fact, you can chase them to their boat, if you
like.’
Timmy
answered with a small bark. He knew quite well that George didn’t want him to
make much noise. He thought it very queer that she was going over to her island
tonight, all by herself. Why hadn’t she taken the others? He was sure that
Julian would be very cross!
‘Now
don’t bark or whine, Timmy,’ she said, in a whisper. ‘We’re almost at my
landing-place - but I’m going under those trees there, not landing here. I want
to hide my boat.’
 She leapt out, and flung the mooring rope round the
trunk of the nearest tree, and made it fast.
‘There,
little boat,’ she said. ‘You’ll be safe there. No one will see you. Come on,
Tim - we’ll tackle those campers now.’
She
turned to go, and then stopped. ‘I wonder where their boat is,’ she said.
‘Let’s have a look round, Timmy. It must be here somewhere.’
She
soon found the boat lying on the sands, its rope thrown round a near-by rock.
The tide was almost up to it. She grinned to herself. ‘Timmy!’ she whispered.
‘I’m going to untie this boat and set it loose on the tide. It will soon be far
away. Ha - what will those awful campers say?’
And,
to Timmy’s amazement, she undid the rope from the rock, rolled it up, and threw
the coil inside the boat. Then she gave the boat a push - but it was still
embedded in the wet sand.
‘Never
mind,’ she said. ‘Another ten minutes and the tide will be right under it - and
then it will turn and take the boat with it!’
She
began to make her way up the beach, Timmy close to her side. ‘Now let’s go
after those campers, who-ever they are,’ she said. ‘Where’s their light gone? I
can’t see it now.’
But
in a minute or two she saw it again. ‘It’s not from a camp-fire - it’s from a
lantern of some sort,’ she whispered to Timmy. ‘We’ll have to be careful now.
Let’s see if we can creep up behind them.’
The
two of them made their way silently towards the middle of the little island.
Here there was an old ruined castle - and there, in the courtyard of the
castle, sitting in the midst of thick, overgrown weeds, were two men. George
had her hand on Timmy’s collar, and tugged it gently. He knew that meant, ‘No
barking, no growling, Tim,’ and he stood perfectly still, the hackles on his
neck rising fast.
The
two men were playing cards by the light of a fairly powerful lantern, which
they had set on a ruined stone wall. Timmy couldn’t help giving a surprised
growl when he saw one of them, but George hushed him at once.
Mr
Wooh, the magician from the circus, was there, dealing out the cards! The other
man she didn’t know. He was well-dressed, and seemed bored. He flung down his
cards as Timmy and George watched from a dark corner of the old castle, and
spoke to his companion in an irritated voice.
‘Well,
whoever it is you said was bringing the rest of those papers here to the island
doesn’t seem to be turning up. The papers you’ve given me are good - very good
- but of no use without the others. This scientist fellow you’ve stolen them
from is a genius. If we get the complete set of papers, they will be worth a tremendous
sum of money, which I can get for you - but without the other papers, there
will be no money for you - the first set would be useless!’
‘I
tell you, someone will be here with them. I heard them say so,’ said Mr Wooh,
in his stately voice.
‘Who
stole them - you?’ asked the other man, shuffling the cards quickly.
‘No.
I did not steal them,’ said Mr Wooh. ‘Me, I keep my hands clean - I do not
steal.’
The
second man laughed. ‘No.  Mr Wooh, the World’s Most Wonderful Magician, does not soil his hands! He
merely uses the hands of others - and charges enormous prices for the goods
they steal. You’re a cunning one, Mr Wooh. I wouldn’t like you for an enemy!
How did you manage to get the papers?’
‘By
using my eyes and my ears and my cunning,’ answered Mr Wooh. ‘They are better
than most people’s.  ‘I’ve got to do business with you,
Mr Wooh, but I wouldn’t like to have you for a friend. I’d rather have that
chimpanzee of yours!  WHY doesn’t this
fellow come?’
George
put her mouth to one of Timmy’s ears.  ‘Fancy fellows
like that daring to set foot here - rascals and rogues!
Leaving
a most unwilling Timmy standing beside part of the old castle wall, she
suddenly appeared before the two astonished men by the light of their lantern.
They
leapt to their feet at once. ‘It’s the girl who’s come - I shouldn’t have
thought that the boys would have let her,’ said Mr Wooh, astonished.  ‘It belongs to me. I saw
your light and came over with my dog. Be careful of him - he’s big and strong
and fierce. Clear off at once, or I’ll report you to the police!’
‘Easy,
easy, now!’ said Mr Wooh, standing very straight and looking immensely tall.
‘So the boys sent you to hide the papers instead of daring to come themselves.
How cowardly of them! Where are the papers? Give them to me.’
‘I’ve
hidden them,’ said George. ‘They’re not very far away. You didn’t think I’d be
silly enough to come along to you with them in my hands when I saw your light
and knew that people were here, did you? No - I’ve hidden them somewhere on the
shore - where you won’t find them. Now you just clear off, both of you!’
‘A
very brave and determined young lady!’ said Mr Wooh, bowing solemnly to George.
‘Do
you mean to tell me that’s a girl!’ said the other man, amazed. ‘Well! She’s a
plucky kid, I must say! Look here, kid, if you’ve got those papers, hand them
over, and I’ll give you a whole lot of money which you can give to Professor
Hayling with my best wishes.’
‘Come
and get them,’ said George, turning as if to go. The two men looked at one
another, eye-brows raised. Mr Wooh nodded, and then winked. If George had seen
his face she would have known what that wink meant. It meant, ‘Let’s humour
this silly kid, follow her - see the hiding-place, snatch the papers and clear
off in our boat without paying a penny! But LOOK OUT for the dog!’
George
led the way, Timmy walking between her and the two men. He was growling all the
time, deep down in his throat, as if to say, ‘Just you lay a finger on George
and I’ll bite it off!’ The men took care not to go too near him! They shone the
lantern on him all the time, making sure that he was not going to leap at them.
George
led them to the shore, to the place where they had left their boat. Mr Wooh
gave a cry. ‘Where’s our boat? It was tied to that rock!’
‘Is
this it over this ridge?’ called George, climbing up a steep bank that overhung
the water, which was now quite deep with the surging tide.
The
men went to look - and then George gave them the surprise of their lives! She
ran at Mr Wooh and gave him such a push that he fell right over the high bank
into the sea below, landing with a yell and a terrific splash. George shouted a
command to Timmy, who was now very excited, and the big dog did the same to the
other man, leaping at him and pushing him over. He too shot over the ridge and
fell into the sea with a splash. Timmy stood on the little cliff and barked
madly, as excited as George.
‘You’ll
have to swim to the shore of the mainland if you want to escape!’ yelled
George. ‘The tide has taken away your boat - I set it loose! You’d better not
get back on my island yet - Timmy’s on the watch for you - and he’ll fly at
either of you if you try to set a foot on it again!’
Both
men could swim, though not very well, and both were exceedingly angry and very
frightened. They were sure they could never swim to the mainland - but how to
get on the island to safety, they didn’t know. That great, fierce dog was
there, barking as if he wanted to bite them into small bits. Their boat had
been set loose, there was no way to escape. They swam round in circles, not
knowing what to do!
‘I’m
going back to the mainland now!’ yelled George, climbing into her boat. ‘I’ll
send the police to rescue you in the morning. You can get on my island now -
but you’re in for a VERY cold night! Goodbye!’
And
off went George in her boat, with Timmy standing at the back, watching to make
sure those men didn’t swim after them. He gave George an admiring lick. She
wasn’t afraid of ANYTHING! He’d rather belong to her than to anyone else in the
world.
WOOF,
WOOF, W-O-O-F!
Chapter
Seventeen
AND
AT LAST THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED!
George
couldn’t help singing loudly as she rowed back to the shore in her boat. Timmy
joined in with a bark now and again. He was glad that George was so happy. He
stood in the prow of the boat, wishing it was not night-time, so that he could
see clearly where he was going. The moon clouded over, and the sea looked
endless in the dark. Very few lights showed on the mainland at that time of
night - just one or two from houses where people were still up.
Wait,
though - what was that bright light suddenly shining out from the mainland? Was
it someone trying to pick out their boat? Timmy barked at the light, and
George, who, of course, was rowing with her back to the shore, shipped her oars
for a moment and looked round.
‘It’s
someone on the quay,’ she said. ‘Maybe a late fisherman. Good! He’ll be able to
help me drag my boat up out of the way of the tide!’
But
it wasn’t a fisherman. It was Julian and Dick. They had arrived about five
minutes ago, and had looked at once for George’s boat, and hadn’t found it.
‘Blow!
We’re too late to stop her, then. She’s gone over to the island!’ said Julian
and began to examine all the other tied-up boats to see if he could find one
that he could borrow, belonging to a friend. Somehow they must get over to
Kirrin Island, and rescue George. He felt sure she would be in danger of'some
kind.
Then
suddenly the two boys heard the sounds of oars splashing not far out to sea.
Well, if that was a fisherman coming home, maybe Julian could ask him to lend
him his boat to go to Kirrin Island in. He could tell him that he was afraid
his cousin might be in need of help.
Timmy,
in George’s boat, suddenly recognised the two boys when the moon swam out from
a cloud, and gave a delighted volley of barks. George, wondering if it was
Julian and Dick, rowed as quickly as she could. She came into shore, jumped out
and began to drag in her boat. The boys were beside her at once, and the boat
was soon in its usual place, carefully made safe in case the tide was a high
one.
‘George!’
said Julian, so overjoyed to see his cousin safe and sound that he couldn’t
help giving her a bear-hug. ‘You wicked girl! You went to the island - just
what I said you weren’t to do. You might have found the thieves on the island,
and then you would have been in trouble!’
‘I
did find them - but it’s they who are in trouble, not me!’ said George. ‘I saw
a light over there, took my boat and went over to the island - and there they
were - Mr Wooh the Magician and another man - ON MY ISLAND! Did you ever hear
such cheek? They asked me for the papers at once!’
‘Oh,
George - did you give them to the men?’ asked Dick.
‘Of
course not! I’d already hidden them where those men couldn’t possibly find
them. I wasn’t idiotic enough to take them over to hide on the island when I
saw somebody was there - probably waiting for me - and for the papers!’ said
George.
‘But,
George - if you knew somebody was there, why on earth did you risk going over
to Kirrin Island then?’ asked Julian, puzzled. ‘It was a very dangerous thing
to do.’
‘I
wanted to turn off whoever it was, of course,’ said George. ‘As if I’d allow
just anyone on my island! It’s mine, my very own, and I only allow people on it
that I like.  ‘How did you dare to go and tackle those men? Oh, I know Timmy was with
you, but even so... and why in the world didn’t the men row after you, and ram
your boat?’
‘Well,
you see, they couldn’t,’ said George. ‘I found their boat, untied it, and set
it adrift on the tide. It’s probably half a mile away by now!’
The
boys were so astonished that they couldn’t even laugh at first. But then, when
they thought of the two men marooned on Kirrin Island, their boat gone goodness
knows where, they laughed till tears came into their eyes!
‘George,
I don’t know how you can think of doing such things!’ said Julian. ‘Weren’t the
men furious?’
‘I
don’t know,’ said George. ‘I didn’t tell them about their boat. I pretended
that I’d take them to where I’d hidden the papers - and then when we got on to
a nice high ridge overlooking the sea, they looked over it to see if their boat
was all right, and I gave Mr Wooh a jolly good push, and Timmy leapt at the man
with him - and in they went - SPLASH! SPLASH!’
Julian
really had to sit down and have another bout of laughing till the stitch in his
side grew so bad that he was forced to get up and walk about. George suddenly
saw the funny side of it all too, and she began to laugh as heartily as Julian.

‘Oh
dear!’ said Julian, feeling weak with laughter, ‘And then I suppose you said a
polite farewell and left them to their fate?’
‘Well,
actually I yelled out to tell them I’d send the police to rescue them in the
morning,’ said George. ‘I’m afraid they’ll both spend a very uncomfortable
night - they were soaking wet, you see!’
‘George
- I’m beginning to think it was a good thing you went with the papers to the
island, and not me, after all,’ said Julian. ‘I should never have thought of
doing all the things you did - pushing the men into the sea - really, how could
you and Timmy dare to do such things? And setting their boat loose! What on
earth will the police say when we tell them?’
‘I
don’t think we’d better tell them, had we?’ said George. ‘I mean - they might
think I’d gone too far. Anyway, why not let the two men kick their heels on the
island all night, and we’ll decide what to do about the police in the morning.
It’s funny - I suddenly feel awfully tired.’
‘I
bet you do!’ said Dick. ‘Come on, let’s get our bikes. Oh, and those precious
papers - where are they?’
‘Under
the tarpaulin in Fisherman Connell’s boat,’ said George, and suddenly gave the
most enormous yawn. ‘I hid them there.’
‘I’ll
get them,’ said Julian. ‘Then off we go back to Big Hollow House. The others
will be getting awfully worried by now!’
He
found the papers in the fishing-boat and then the three of them rode off
quickly along the road from Kirrin to Big Hollow, Timmy running behind them,
Julian kept laughing to himself. George should have been a boy not a girl - the
things she did! Fancy tackling those two fellows like that - pushing them into
the water, and setting their boat adrift. Julian was sure he would never have
thought of doing such daring things himself!
At
last they were back at the tents, and the others crowded round them to hear
what had happened. Anne looked very white. Jenny was with her, comforting her -
she had just made up her mind to telephone the police, and was most relieved to
see George again.
‘We’ll
tell you all the details in the morning,’ said Julian. ‘But all I’ll say now is
that the papers are safe all right, here in my pocket - the thieves were
probably Mr Wooh and another man. They were on the island tonight, waiting for
George. They had overheard what she said in the tent! However, George and Timmy
pushed them both into the water and set their boat adrift, so things are
settling down nicely! They will have to spend the night on the island, cold and
wet through!’
‘George
did all that!’ said Jenny, amazed. ‘Well! I never knew she was so dangerous!
Good gracious! I feel right down scared of her! Settle down to sleep in your
tent, dear - you look tired out!’
George
was glad to flop down on her rugs. Now that the excitement was all over, she
felt too sleepy for words! She fell asleep at once - but Julian and Dick
didn’t. They lay awake for some time, chuckling over George’s deeds of daring.
What a cousin to have!
When
they were up at the house at breakfast next morning, Jeremy came up the garden
and put his head in at the dining-room window. ‘I say!’ he said.
‘Mr
Wooh’s not in his tent this morning! He’s disappeared! And poor old Charlie the
Chimp is too miserable for words.’
‘Ah
- we can tell you exactly where Mr Wooh is,’ said Julian. ‘But - wait a bit,
Tinker, where are you going? You haven’t finished your...’
But
Tinker had gone off with Jeremy at top speed! He was very fond of Charlie. Oh
dear, would the chimpanzee weep for his master and refuse to take his food?
Tinker called Mischief and they both ran down to the fence with Jeremy and
climbed over it. Tinker went straight to Charlie’s cage. The chimpanzee sat
with his head in his hands, rocking himself to and fro, making sad, crying
noises.
‘Let’s
get into the cage with him,’ said Tinker. ‘He’ll like to be comforted. He must
be missing Mr Wooh very, very much.’
They
crawled into the cage and sat down in the straw, each putting an arm round the
sad chimpanzee. Old Grandad was very surprised to see them both there.
‘Don’t
know what’s happened to Mr Wooh,’ he said. ‘Didn’t come home last night! Here,
Jeremy, you come on out. I can’t spare you to cry over Charlie all morning.
He’ll soon perk up. You can stay with him, Tinker, if you like.’
Jeremy
crawled out of the cage and went off crossly. Tinker sat with his arm round
Charlie, wishing he didn’t look so terribly sad. As he sat there, he heard a
funny little noise going on all the time. Tick - tick - tick - ticka - ticka -
tick - tick - tick - tick - ticka - ticka - tick. ‘Sounds like a watch or
something,’ said Tinker, and scrabbled about in the straw. Perhaps Mr Wooh’s
big gold watch had fallen into Charlie’s cage?
His
hand felt something small and round and smooth at the bottom of the cage. He
rifled away the thick straw, and drew out the object underneath it. He stared
and stared at it in the utmost surprise. Charlie saw him looking at it,
snatched it away and hid it in the straw again. He made a few growly noises as
if he were angry.
‘Charlie,
where did you get that little clock?’ said Tinker. ‘Oh, CHARLIE! Well, as
you’re so sad this morning, I’ll give it to you for your very own. Just to
cheer you up. But oh, Charlie, I am surprised at you!’
He
slid out of the cage and went back over the fence and into his own garden. Up
the path he ran and burst into the dining-room, where the others were still
finishing their breakfast.
‘What’s
up?’ said Dick.
‘Listen!
I know who the thief was who climbed in at the tower window... I KNOW WHO HE
WAS!’ cried Tinker, almost shouting in his excitement.
‘WHO?’
said everyone, in amazement.
‘It
was CHARLIE the CHIMP!’ said Tinker. ‘Why didn’t we think of him before? He can
climb anything! It would be quite easy for him to swing himself up that
rough-stoned tower wall, hanging on to the bits of creeper here and there - and
to the uneven stones - and climb through the window into the tower room,
collect all the papers he could hold - and climb down again - slither down
again, probably...’
‘THAT
must have been the slithering sound I heard!’ said Jenny.  ‘Gosh - I bet poor old Charlie’s
been taught to get into all sorts of windows and take whatever he sees. Mr Wooh
must have known Tinker’s father worked out all his ideas up in the tower.’
‘Wooh
could easily teach him to take papers,’ said Julian. ‘But there were, of
course, too many for old Charlie in the tower room. He wouldn’t be able to
carry them all in his front paws, for he needed all his paws to climb down that
steep wall - so he must have crammed as many as he could into his mouth - and
dropped the rest under the table! CHARLIE the CHIMP - well! Who would have
thought he could be the thief!’
‘Wait
a bit - how on earth do you know it was Charlie?’ said Dick. ‘Nobody saw him.
It was at night.’
‘Well,
I do know it was Charlie,’ said Tinker. ‘You remember that dear little clock on
the tower room mantelpiece? Well, it disappeared on the night when those papers
were stolen - and I found it hidden in the straw in Charlie’s cage this
morning! He snatched it away from me, and almost cried - so I let him keep it!
It was ticking loudly just like it always did. It was the loud ticking that
told me it was there in the cage!’
‘Who
wound it up at nights, to keep it going?’ said Julian, at once, most
astonished.
‘Charlie,
I suppose,’ said Tinker. ‘He’s very clever with his paws! The clock was quite
safe, hidden in his cage. Nobody would be likely to get into the chimp’s cage
and sit there with him - but I did this morning, and that’s how I found it. I
heard it ticking, you see.   ‘He needed all his
four paws, climbing - or rather slithering down that wall - and he’s got a
jolly big mouth! You should see what a lot of food he can stuff into it!’
‘Yes.
And Mr Wooh would take the papers, of course - Charlie would just take them
from his mouth and hand them to him - but he’d be artful enough to keep his
precious new toy hidden in his mouth! Poor old Charlie! Can’t you see him
listening to the clock, and cuddling it - like a child with a new toy!’ said
George.
‘He
sounded exactly as if he were crying this morning,’ said Tinker. ‘I couldn’t
bear it. Poor old Charlie! He couldn’t understand why Mr Wooh didn’t go and see
him today. He was so miserable!’
‘I
think we’ll have to get the police along now,’ said Julian. ‘Not only to catch
Mr Wooh and his friend, left so conveniently marooned by George on her island -
but also because Mr Wooh should be charged with stealing your father’s
irreplaceable charts and diagrams, Tinker. Goodness knows what else he has
taught poor old Charlie to steal. I bet he’s sent the chimp into a lot of
houses, and up many walls, and into many windows.’
‘Yes.
There’s probably been a trail of robberies wherever the circus went,’ said
Jenny. ‘And many innocent people must have been suspected.’
‘What
a shame!’ said Anne. ‘But oh dear - if Mr Wooh goes to prison, whatever will
become of poor old Charlie the Chimp?’
‘I
bet Jeremy will take him,’ said Tinker. ‘He loves him, and old Charlie adores
Jeremy! He’ll be all right with Jeremy and old Grandad!’
‘Well,
Tinker, I think you’d better go and tell your father all this,’ said Jenny. ‘I
know he’s busy - he always is - but this is a thing he ought to deal with and
nobody else. If you’d like to fetch him, George could tell him the whole story
- and then I rather guess he’ll ring up the police - and Mr Wooh will find
himself in a whole lot of trouble.’
So
there goes Tinker, with Mischief on his shoulder, to find his father, down the
hall - up the stairs - along the landing - into his father’s bedroom...
r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r! Tinker, you sound like a motor-scooter going up a
steep hill! PARP -PARP!
But
the Professor did listen - and soon Jenny heard him telephoning the police.
They’re coming straight away, and that means that Mr Wooh the Magician is in
for a most unpleasant time, and his magic won’t help him at all! He’ll have to
give back the papers that he made Charlie steal - and plenty of other things,
too! There he is, marooned on the island, quite unable to escape, waiting
fearfully with his companion, for the police!
‘Another
adventure over!’ said George, with a regretful sigh. ‘And a jolly exciting one
too! I’m glad you solved the mystery, Tinker - it was clever of you to find the
little tower room clock. I bet Mr Wooh wouldn’t have let Charlie keep it, if
he’d known he’d taken it from the tower room! Poor old Charlie the Chimp!’
‘I’m
just wondering if Dad would let me keep Charlie here, while Mr Wooh is in
prison,’ began Tinker, and stopped as Jenny gave a horrified shriek.
‘Tinker!
If you so much as mention that idea to your father, I’ll walk straight out of
this house and NEVER COME BACK!’ said Jenny. ‘That chimp would be in my kitchen
all day long - oh yes, he would - and things would be disappearing out of my
larder, and my cupboards, and my drawers, and he’d dance up and down and scream
at me if I so much as said a word, and...’
‘All
right, dear, dear Jenny, I won’t ask for Charlie, honest I won’t,’ said Tinker.
‘I do love you a bit more than I’d love a chimp - but think what a companion he
would be for Mischief!’
‘I’m
not thinking anything of the sort!’ said Jenny. ‘And what about you taking a
bit of notice of that monkey of yours - bless us all if he hasn’t helped
himself to half that jar of jam - just look at his sticky face! Oh, what a week
this has been, what with chimps and monkeys and children and robberies, and
George disappearing, and all!’
‘Dear
old Jenny,’ said George, laughing as she went off into the kitchen. ‘What an
exciting time we’ve had! I really did enjoy every minute of it!’
So
did we, George. Hurry up and fall into another adventure. We are longing to
hear what you and the others will be up to next. How we wish we could join you!
Good-bye for now - and take care of yourselves, Five. Good luck!


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