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Death will be at our elbow anyhow, but he'll be sure to strike us all if we remain where we are. The meat we were lucky enough to get yesterday will keep our party on short allowance for some time, and the men will surely find something or other to eke it out while we push on and bring relief." "Goot," returned the German; "ve vill start after breakfast. My lecks are yet pretty strong."
When Jurgis heard of this, from a fellow "hobo," he vowed that he would have half a dozen bowls before morning; but, as it proved, he was lucky to get one, for there was a line of men two blocks long before the stand, and there was just as long a line when the place was finally closed up.
Roger hauled the sheet aft and made it fast, then sprang to the tiller, and the little craft began to move away from the mole under the influence of the breeze. "Lucky we found no one aboard," gasped the sailor, whose name was Mathews; "but then I did not expect that there would be anybody about; they never leave a watch on these little craft."
George began to express his gratitude as best he could it was not easy to find neat, convincing sentences on the spur of the moment but she cut him short. 'Of course, it was nothing. Nothing at all, she said, brushing the sea-water from her eyes. 'It was just lucky I happened to be there. 'It was splendid, said the infatuated dramatist. 'It was magnificent. It He saw that she was smiling.
Only inside the iron casemates did there seem to be any protection from that deadly storm, and there the Chinese sailors were serving their guns coolly and with excellent aim. Shot after shot struck one or other of the junks, and Frobisher could see them actually reel under the impact; but so far no shot had been lucky enough to strike below or on the water line, and so sink any of them.
But the wind-sail, being necessarily at one end only of the place, the air it brought was pretty well absorbed by the twenty or thirty lucky fellows near it, and the other hundred and fifty did not come so well off.
Arrived again in the capital of the nation, the lads went straight to the Raleigh hotel, where they got in touch with the British ambassador. "I've been hearing good reports about you, Captain," said the ambassador's voice over the telephone. "We were a bit lucky, sir, that is all," replied Jack deprecatingly.
Hoff already. I've just had luncheon with him." "That's fine," he cried enthusiastically. "A lucky day it was I ran across you." "When you 'phoned me he was there in our apartment, he and a navy lieutenant, Mr. Kramer."
"I heard papa say it was quite by chance he had lost all that money to you, for you did not understand the first principles of the game." "Ah! he said that? But it is lucky for us other poor devils that we have these chances sometimes! You will at least admit that, Mademoiselle?"
If we were lucky, by waiting a couple of hours, we obtained fowls, rice, and farinha. It not unfrequently happened, that we were obliged to kill, with stones, the poultry for our own supper. If we had dared to remonstrate any further, we should have been told to proceed on our journey, as being too impertinent.
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