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'The word or we fire! One in the boat stands up. 'Dione, says he, and on comes the boat under our stern." He put up an uncertain hand to a ghastly wound in his forehead.... "Well, your Honor, as I was saying, they were Spaniards, after all, and a many of them, for they were hidden in the bottom of the boat.
Since it was the sea water that was coming in, he determined to have a fight with it for the possession of the boat. So he set to work bravely, and began to bale. He pulled up the sail, so as to have plenty of elbow-room, and worked away, dipping out the water; but, as he dipped, he perceived that it was gradually getting deeper.
They seemed almost incapable of any intelligent action, but yelled like so many savages. I decided at once upon my course. I got into the wagon, calculating that the water would probably not come to my head while standing up, should the boat go down. If it should, then I determined to take my horse by the tail and let him tow me ashore.
He would have agreed to ten times the sum demanded; for the boat he must and would have. But he had neglected to conclude his bargain, to come to an understanding as to the method of payment; and he felt more than a little dubious as to the reception the fisherman would give his proposition, sound as he, Kirkwood, knew it to be.
But long before he reached his favourite spot he again caught sight of the fluttering blue petticoat of a woman, and saw her hurrying inland. "Poor woman!" thought Aleck. "She needn't be afraid of me." He kept an eye upon her till she disappeared, and then went on to the niche in the rock face, settled himself down with his glass, and watched the cutter's boat, which was steadily pulling in.
"Well, if she's brave enough to risk it, I am!" said Grace positively. "Shall we go, girls?" "Wait a bit and see what happens," suggested Mollie. But nothing seemed to be going to happen. On up the river went the auto ice boat at ever-increasing speed. "Dare we take it out ourselves?" asked Grace. "I don't see why not," replied Mollie.
Either we might have been on shore, and the vessel gone on without us; or you might have been sent ashore ill, and I might have been left to nurse you. That wouldn't be a bad story. "What we must do, when we get to the other side, must depend upon where we land. I mean, whether we try to get straight in by boat, or to wait about until a chance comes.
His companion, who had not made a motion, exclaimed: "Say, Mailloche, get your gun and see if we can't land some rabbit along the shore." The other one answered: "All right. I'll be with you in a minute." Then he disappeared, in order to hide their catch. The man who had stayed in the boat slowly filled his pipe and lighted it.
As the coming up of the gig and the large boat had occurred on that side of the schooner that was farthest from the Talisman, those on board of the latter vessel could not make out clearly what had occurred.
"You mean why, this boat cannot go without gasolene, can it?" "Not very well; no." "Then then what are we going to do?" "Anchor and wait, if I can." "Wait! But I don't wish to wait. I wish to be taken home, at once." "I am sorry, but I am afraid that is impossible." I was on my way forward to where the anchor lay, in the bow. She rose and stepped in front of me. "Mr. Paine." "Yes, Miss Colton."
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