Downstream

decided to make his crossing
in high summer when the
water was warmest, and at
high tide as it turned. He
would start from the stairs at
Globe Wharf and swim
straight across to the Ratcliffe
Cross Stairs at Narrow Street.
His lodger, Tom Mitchelson,
would flash a light from the
balcony to show the coast
was clear, and when Jonathan
Weir, a twenty-year-old
student, heard Matthew