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Henckel's back over the hatch-coaming, took his automatic away from him, and proceeded to take a cast of the mate's features in the vulcanite butt of the weapon. And vulcanite is far from soft! When Terence Reardon had completed his self-appointed task he stood up, hitched his dungarees, spat blood on the deck, and stood waving from side to side like a dancing bear.
"Heroic, is it? Bedad, it's epic! Ye begin to perceive the breadth and depth of my genius." Colonel Bishop sat himself down on the hatch-coaming, took off his broad hat, and mopped his brow. "Y'amaze me!" he gasped. "On my soul, y'amaze me! To have recovered the treasure and to have seized this fine ship and all she'll hold! It will be something to set against the other losses we have suffered.
Then, after a long pause: "Oh, if you knew how awful it was out there." "I know," said Mr. Martin. The Celestine was bowling into Bedford Harbor with a fair wind. Kirk, in a reefer any number of sizes too large for him, sat on a hatch-coaming and drank in the flying wonder of the schooner's way. He was sailing on a great ship!
A squad of marines dash from the "barracks" below and line up at the secondary battery guns on the forecastle. Some of the marines are hatless and coatless, and one wiry little private shambles along on one foot. He stumbles against a hatch-coaming and kicks his shoe across the deck. Suddenly an order comes out of the gloom near the main hatch and is carried from gun to gun.
"He's hiding," the captain soliloquized. "Now, where would I take shelter if I were in his fix? Why, back of the hatch-coaming, of course or the winch." He had a sudden inspiration and called aloud: "Riggins! Riggins! Answer me, Riggins. This is Captain Murphy calling you." "'Ere, sir," came the voice of Riggins from the pilot-house above. The voice was very weak.
Reardon decided presently, and forthwith crept across the deck on his hands and knees until he reached the hatch-coaming. Mr. Henckel lurked just round the other corner of the coaming, so close Mr. Reardon could hear him breathing. And there the crafty chief had waited until Mr. Henckel rose for his charge whereupon Mr. Reardon rose also.
It was glutinous and too thick for the pump to lift, since the water that filled the vessel drained away through the broken plates as the tide sank. Brown, kneeling on the hatch-coaming, knitted his brows. "The stuff's water-borne, forced up by its buoyancy," he said. "We may find it looser as we get down. In the meantime, suction's no use; we have got to break it out by hand.
Henckel's rush, when a searchlight came nickering and feeling its way across the dark waters. Slowly, slowly it lifted and rested on the big blunt bows of the Narcissus, hovered there a few seconds and came slowly aft, and as it lighted up the main deck Mr. Henckel rose from behind the hatch-coaming. "Deutschland uber Alles!" he yelled joyously and rushed.
Reardon and the children and his best job gone for ever tossed into the discard with his honor as a faithful servant. He sat down very suddenly on the hatch-coaming and covered his terrible face with his terrible hands. "Ah, Norah! Norah!" he cried and sobbed as if his heart must break. When Captain the Hon.
The sharp edge must have cut him, for he uttered a stifled groan, and as he recoiled from me, partly from my blow and partly as the result of a deep roll of the vessel, I wriggled out of my jacket and ran forward. In my flight I bumped into ventilators, stumbled over a hatch-coaming and pulled myself along the swaying rail-chains toward the bow of the vessel.
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