Downstream

performance were kept secret.
Beyond the customary gangs
of loafers, no one was about
at the time. It was decided
that Miss Finney should leap
from the first arch on the
Middlesex side at 2.45 . . . A
number of steamboats and
tugs were passing at the time,
and it was not until three
o’clock that the signal was
given to the fair diver. The
course, so to speak, being
clear, one male friend took