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All this had been done behind his back and without his knowledge, so deafening and absorbing was the tempest. He saw at once what was meant and what he would have to do. When the brig struck he must carry Clara into the top, secure her in the sling, and send her ashore. Doubtless the crowd on the beach would know enough to make the hawser fast and pull on the halyard.
"If you please," came a soft voice from the door, "Mr. Halyard awaits your company to dinner." I dined well or, rather, I might have enjoyed my dinner if Mr. Halyard had been eliminated; and the feast consisted exclusively of a joint of beef, the pretty nurse, and myself. She was exceedingly attractive with a disturbing fashion of lowering her head and raising her dark eyes when spoken to.
Off came the sailor's belt, the hands of the half-stunned man were quickly tied behind him, and before he had time to realize what had happened Neils had cut a length of cord from a trailing halyard and tied his feet securely, after which he gagged him with his bandana handkerchief.
"No, Herr major! She would stay on deck in spite of the storm, though Van dem Bosch kept asking her to go below. When a violent squall broke the halyard, she was knocked overboard by the gaff. As the sea was running high, there was no chance of saving her." Heideck had covered his face with his hand. A dull groan burst from his violently heaving breast and a voice within him exclaimed
It was almost too dark to see, but I leaned over the rail and swept the water with my hand. Instantly something smooth glided under it, like the back of a great fish, and I jerked my hand back to the tiller. At the same moment the whole surface of the water seemed to begin to purr, with a sound like the breaking of froth in a champagne-glass. "What's the matter with you?" asked Halyard, sharply.
Grace leaned over the stern to affix the little marine emblem in its place, and soon the sail swung out on its halyard, and when the mate, Eugenia, cut loose from shore, the Blowell lost no time in demonstrating the power of its name. "Oh, how delightful," gasped Margaret. "And we thought canoeing was fun." "It's just glorious," exhaled Julia. "Now, aren't you glad I changed our plans?"
I was just about to place myself under the clear sparkling stream of salt-water that gushed from the spout of the pump when the sound of a loud snap overhead caused me to look aloft, and I saw that the royal halyard had parted, and that the yard was sagging down with its own weight, and the sail bellying out with the pressure of the wind in it.
I said; "I can swallow the auks, feathers and claws, but if this fellow Halyard is hinting he's seen an amphibious creature resembling a man " " Or a woman," said the professor, cautiously. I retired, disgusted, my faith shaken in the mental vigor of Professor Farrago. The three days' voyage by boat and rail was irksome.
Carboy, the mate, as he dropped the halyard. "Nothing can save the brig now." "What shall we do?" asked Harvey Barth, startled by the words of the officer. "Must we drown here?" "We shall do what we can to save ourselves," replied Mr.
"Is the Blue Wanderer ready for me?" "She is, Miss. The minute you like to step into her she's there for you. There's a new pair of rowlocks and I've a nice bit of rope for a halyard for the little lug. Is it it you have tied on the bicycle?" "It is," said Priscilla, "and it's a good sail, half as big again as the old one."
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