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"Why, Owen of ours he's running away with a Spanish lady." "The devil!" cried the Lieutenant, jumping down. "What, Garry Owen! we must try a long shot. "Corporal, lay that gun; a dollar if you hit the felucca. I'll try a shot with this one." So saying, he laid the thirty-two pounder next him with great care. "Fire!" said he, jumping on the parapet to see the effect of the shot.
I am not accustomed to answer questions as to my movements, and therefore would advise you to be silent." There was no more to be done on board the felucca. Although Don Diogo was known to be a slave-dealer and guilty of numberless atrocities, he could not be touched, nor could his craft be detained.
"He was a strange man, certainly," observed Peter. "The captain seems to have a suspicion about the craft out there. See, he and the mates are talking together. They don't like her looks." Still we stood on with all sails set. Much the same scene occurred which had happened before, when we saw the felucca off Saint Kitt's.
Of this brief pause we promptly availed ourselves by getting the brig under way and working her and the felucca out toward the entrance, when, much to our astonishment, the boats with one accord turned round and pulled back to the beach.
On the second day of May the Germans took one of the enemy's redoubts by surprise, and the marquis de Lede ordered all his forces to be drawn out to retake this fortification: both armies were on the point of engaging, when a courier arrived in a felucca with a packet for the marquis, containing full powers to treat and agree about the evacuation of the island, and the transportation of the army to Spain.
Jack and Adair began to fear that the felucca was not in sight, when Hemming slowly sank down into his seat again, saying quietly, as he cast eyes on the boat's compass, "There she is, though; out oars. Starboard the helm a little, Rogers, west-north-west. That will do. Give way, my lads." Away glided the boat, urged on by sturdy arms, in the direction mentioned.
"I thought it was better to send for you, Captain Bowse, for as I'm a living man there is that cursed felucca, instead of going to Malta, following at our heels, and coming up with us hand over hand." As the mate spoke, he pointed in the direction towards which he had been looking.
But Krino got up and took his way homeward, exulting over his bargain, and leading the camel. At the same hour, lower down the Nile, at Omdurman, the river lay calm now, without a ripple, and bathed in gold; a stream of liquid gold it seemed, asleep between its deep-green banks, and only now and then did a white-sailed felucca glide by in the golden evening light.
She would be really delighted if you called on her immediately." How delightful to receive such advice from his own lips! But the word "immediately" annoyed me, because, having passed the night on board the felucca, I was afraid that the disorder of my toilet might injure me in her eyes.
Had she not made sail as you say, nothing could have prevented our getting alongside." "Well, then, she ran. Wind sprung up, enemy made sail every attempt to get alongside unsuccessful. Brave fellows, cheering and doing their utmost. Not so bad an account, after all, but how about that d d felucca? You see, she is burned to the water's edge and will go down in a few minutes."
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