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By the time afternoon came he was faint with hunger, and, having determined upon his course of action, he sent a fairly polite message to Captain Hardy and asked for an interview. The captain, who was resting from his labours in the chart-room, received him with the same air of cold severity which had so endeared Captain Nugent himself to his subordinates.
Our skipper was the sea rival of the famous Captain Blandford; and the way he drove his little craft, with the ice inches thick from the driving spray all over the bridge and blocking the chart-room windows, made one glad to know that the good sea genius of the English was still so well preserved.
I was always aching to get my hands on the sail-maker that made it." On my way below a glance into the chart-room gave me the cue to the Samurai's blunder if blunder it can be called, for no one will ever know. He lay on the floor in a loose heap, rolling willy-nilly with every roll of the Elsinore. There is so much to write about all at once. In the first place, Captain West.
The old man is just gone in to lie down. Hang me if I don't speak to him." But when he opened the door of the chart-room he saw his captain reading a book. Captain MacWhirr was not lying down: he was standing up with one hand grasping the edge of the bookshelf and the other holding open before his face a thick volume.
It's the greatest story ever written full of facts, facts, facts, facts for the Consolidated Press and Keating wrote it. I tell you, Keating wrote it. I saw him write it. I was a stoker on the same ship." The mate and crew came running forward and stood gaping stupidly through the doors and windows of the chart-room.
There were no life-boats for those poor dumb animals penned down yonder in the rushing waters. Brennan had stepped into the chart-room, but returned in a moment to say: "There's no place to beach her this side of Halibut Bay." "How far is that?" "Five or six miles." "You'll have to beach her?" "I'm afraid so. She feels queer."
The captain asked the two physicians to come to the chart-room where they and the sailors of the Roland, who were already awaiting him, were to give him the vouchers he needed for his brief report to be submitted to his company's agent in New York in regard to the picking up of the castaways. A sort of audience was held, during which nothing new concerning the tremendous disaster was revealed.
The captain, who had been for days living secluded and unapproachable in the chart-room, came to the rail. He ordered the two men to come up on board and menaced them with his revolver. They pretended to obey, but suddenly cutting the boat's painter, gave a shove against the ship's side and made ready to hoist the sail. "Shoot, sir!
In such auspicious occasions all watches were his, and he strode the poop perpetually with all age-lag banished from his legs. Margaret and I were with him in the chart-room when he hurrahed the barometer, down to 28.55 and falling. And we were near him, on the poop, when he drove by an east-bound lime-juicer, hove-to under upper-topsails.
Her spars bright with new varnish, her funnel gay with our blue bunting flag contrasting with the yellow, she had come to the wharf for the last time before leaving for the long summer cruise among the Labrador fishing fleet. Indeed, I was just working over the ship's course in my chart-room, when once more Joe, cap in hand, stood in the doorway evidently with something very much on his mind.
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