'Prentices to the Rescue Mr. Slocum Moves at Last Martin Follows Prisoners Martin Finds a Way The Boys Escape Martin Uses his Wits The Boys Swim for It Gollop Makes a Discovery The Pursuit At Grips at Last Gollop at Bay Martin to the Rescue Martin’s Ordeal All’s Well Martin of Old London CHAPTER THE FIRST THE WAITING BOAT One fine evening in the August of the year 1666, Martin Leake, aged fourteen and a few months, had strolled down to the riverside for a breath of air. It had been a terribly hot day. The whole month had been fine and dry; the narrow streets of London were stuffy and smelly, and it was a relief to escape from them to the bank of the broad Thames, where the easterly wind carried in a sharp salt tang from the sea.
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