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The most daring imagination could not suppose that a period of 12,000 years had been crowded into the space of a fortnight; and therefore the captain came, as to an easier conclusion, to the opinion that the earth's axis had been suddenly and immensely shifted; and from the fact that the axis, if produced, would pass through a point so little removed above the horizon, he deduced the inference that the Mediterranean must have been transported to the equator.
Indeed, there is no knowing how long it might have lasted for Captain Branscome made no sign of turning again and facing me but, happening just then to glance along the terrace, I caught sight of Mrs. Stimcoe returning with long, masculine strides. She held an open letter in her hand, and was perusing it as she came.
His cheeks, always more than red, were slightly pale; the almost imperceptible quivering of his upper lip agitated his thick gray mustache a physiological sign which indicated in Captain Daniel a grave preoccupation; he wore trousers and tunic of blue and white striped cloth; in his girdle of red cotton was thrust a long Flemish knife; an India handkerchief, knotted sailor fashion, surrounded his brick-colored throat; finally, he mechanically gave the most whimsical forms to the large and flexible straw hat which he twisted about with both hands.
And that's a miracle that ain't happened in that bank for more'n ONE year. Why, I understand Melissa went down street tellin' all hands what a fine young man we'd got workin' for us. . . . Here, what are you laughin' at?" The word was ill-chosen; Jed seldom laughed, but he had smiled slightly and the captain noticed it. "What are you grinnin' at?" he repeated. Jed's hand moved across his chin.
I strike back" roared Paul, for the first time now hearing the summons. But judging this frantic response to come, like the others, from some unauthorized source, the English captain directed his boarders to be called, some of whom presently leaped on the Richard's rail, but, throwing out his tattooed arm at them, with a sabre at the end of it, Paul showed them how boarders repelled boarders.
"The ship is probably an American; it is likely the captain is in the boat, and he wishes to send letters or messages home." A shout came from Talcott, at the next instant then he cried out "Three cheers, my lads; I see Captain Marble in that boat, as plainly as I see the boat itself!" The cheers that followed, were a spontaneous burst of joy.
"What is it? breakers ahead, do you say?" muttered the captain, only half awake. "Fire! fire!" repeated Keith. "Fire? where?" and the captain sprang up, now wide awake, and began hurrying on his clothes. "That cottage down the road." "That's bad indeed; but not quite so bad as a vessel foundering or burning at sea. Anybody else in the house awake?" "I don't know. Yes, there!
He looked at me queerly, as if I were beyond his comprehension, picked up his hat, called out that he would see me in the morning, and was gone. I went slowly upstairs, threw off my clothes mechanically, and tumbled into bed. The captain had long been asleep.
Captain Galvez tactfully settled the matter, however, by explaining to the crew that the Sultan was, after all, an American subject, which seemed to mollify, even if it did not entirely satisfy them.
Captain Stanhill was an average man, and his feelings, harrowed by the spectacle of the bleeding corpse of the young wife, and the pitiful condition to which her murder had reduced her young husband, clamoured for retribution, swift, complete, and implacable, on the being who had committed this horrible crime.
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