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Hall was to rejoin his yacht at Gibraltar, and doubtless he was now aboard. The colonel grew nervous as he observed the approach of the little boat. It had been agreed between Harris and Hall that the yacht would fly the Union Jack at the bow, the national banner at the flag-staff, and a streamer bearing the yacht's name at the mast-head.
It takes upon an average seven weeks to get an answer to a letter. When I am forced to send a ship there, I never see her under two months." With Gibraltar, however, Malta gave the British two impregnable and secure bases of operations, within reasonable distance of one another, and each in close proximity to points most essential to control.
The Rock of Gibraltar is about a mile and a half long, I should say, by 1,400 to 1,500 feet high, and a quarter of a mile wide at its base. One side and one end of it come about as straight up out of the sea as the side of a house, the other end is irregular and the other side is a steep slant which an army would find very difficult to climb.
Trafalgar, glorious Trafalgar! a household word so long as England shall endure. How our thoughts love to dwell on the deeds you witnessed our fathers do, every man of whom was a hero. And now arrives Sunday, August 11th, on which day, after having been favoured with exceptionally fair weather, Gibraltar, with its mighty rocky fortress, heaves in sight.
If this act had been committed by a military or naval officer of the enemy, transiently within the limits of Gibraltar, every one would have been surprised at it, and would have exclaimed against it as a flagrant violation of the law of nations.
Still again, and quite mechanically now, he read the familiar advertisement. It was the same message, word for word, that had first caught his eye as he had sipped his coffee in the little palm-grown garden of the Hotel Bristol, in Gibraltar, nearly three weeks before.
In a few hours our provisions and water were complete; but we were not in so much haste to arrive at Malta as we were to quit Gibraltar hugging the Spanish coast, in hopes of picking up something to insure us as hearty a welcome at Valette as we found on our last return to Portsmouth. Early on the second morning of our departure we made Cape de Gaete.
At the foot of this slant is the walled town of Gibraltar or rather the town occupies part of the slant. Everywhere on hillside, in the precipice, by the sea, on the heights everywhere you choose to look, Gibraltar is clad with masonry and bristling with guns. It makes a striking and lively picture from whatsoever point you contemplate it.
They have a castle there a castle, something like well, like the old Schloss at Heidelberg. Did you ever hear about or read about Heidelberg University?" But K. D. B. was all abroad now. Gibraltar and Heidelberg were unknown subjects to her, as were also inoculation, Japan, and Kosciusko. Above the G's she was sound; below that point her ignorance was benighted.
"Are you not coming with us, Lydstone?" said his young brother, greatly disappointed. "I did want to show you our mess." "I know Gibraltar by heart, and I have letters to write. I hope you will enjoy yourself, Countess," he added, sarcastically, as they went down the side. "There's no fear of that, now we have left you behind," replied Mrs. Wilders, sharply.
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