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The German student was glad to cover it up again. "I can do nothing," he said. "Perhaps, in a hospital, with baths and dressings ! Relief will be given at all events; but more? I do not know. Here I could not even begin to do anything at all. Do these two men understand English?" "No," answered Calder. "Then I can tell you something. He did not get the hurt by falling out of any palm tree.
The feeling against Sir Robert Calder for not having beaten or forced another battle on the allied fleets in July did not abate. The public were out for impeachment, and the Government did nothing to discourage it; and when Nelson was on the point of leaving England the First Lord instructed him to convey to Calder the Government's condemnation of his evident negligence or incapacity.
"Do you really think so?" he asked anxiously. "Well, this little lark of hers hang me, it's just what I should have enjoyed doing fifty years ago." "Ah er Lord Thrapston, have you noticed the resemblance you speak of in any other way?" "That girl, except that she is a girl, is myself over again myself over again." "The deuce!" "I beg your pardon, Calder; I grow hard of hearing." "Nothing.
Lips which had parted to speak did not close. The steady voice of the clock broke into the silence a dying space between every tick. For the second time in his life Tex Calder knew fear. He saw no mere man before him, but his own destiny. And he knew that if he stood before those glaring eyes another minute he would become like poor Sandy a few minutes before a white-faced, palsied coward.
"Weel, in the confusion o' things after the propeller had dropped off an' the engines were racin' an' a', it's vara possible that Calder might ha' lost it off his head an' no troubled himself to pick it up again. I remember seem' that cap on him at Southampton." "I don't want to know about the cap.
June 20, 1805, he landed at Gibraltar, that being the first time that he had set foot ashore since June 16, 1803. After cruising in search of the enemy till the middle of August, he was ordered to Portsmouth, where he learned that an indecisive action had taken place between the combined fleets returning from the West Indies, and the British under Sir Robert Calder.
J. A. Calder of Saskatchewan, as chairman of the Reconstruction Committee in the Federal Cabinet; the prominent part given to him and to the Hon. Mr. Meighen of Manitoba, in the formation and discussion of plans at the recent meeting of the Premiers of the Provinces; these are in themselves striking illustrations of our contention in the matter.
On the 19th of July Admiral Calder was in this position, with fifteen ships-of-the-line, and received through Lisbon the information of the French movements, which Nelson had forwarded thither an exact month before. On the 20th Nelson's fleet anchored at Gibraltar, and he went ashore, "for the first time since the 16th of June, 1803." On the 22d Calder and Villeneuve met and fought.
Finally the cattleman reached out a hand toward the smoothly muscled shoulders. It was Calder who stood nearest and he managed to strike up Daniels's extended arm and jerk him back from the region of danger. "What'n hell is that for?" exclaimed Daniels. "That horse is called Satan," said Calder, "and when any one save his owner touches him he lives up to his name and raises hell."
The two fleets remained in contact for three days following, but neither took the aggressive. In a subsequent court martial Calder was reprimanded for "not having done his utmost to renew the said engagement and destroy every ship of the enemy." On July 27 the Allied fleet staggered into Vigo, and a week later, after dropping three ships and 1200 sick men, it moved around to Corunna and Ferrol.
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