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"Poor little Celia," he said, reaching out to touch her hand, and drawing her to the bed's edge, where she sat down helplessly. "The Yankee officers are all over the house," she repeated. "They're up in the cupola with night-glasses now. They are ve'y polite. Curt took off his riding boots and went to sleep on my bed and oh he is so dirty! my darling Curt' my own husband! too dirty to touch!
Still it was possible, with the heavy gale blowing, that she might continue on the course she was steering. When darkness came down over the ocean the chase could still be seen through the night-glasses, standing as before.
Still we carried on every stitch of canvas which the frigate could bear; keeping the chase in sight with our night-glasses, and watching all her motions. The breeze increased; before morning there was a heavy sea, and the frigate could only carry top-gallant sails over double-reefed top-sails.
The subaltern raised his binoculars and swept the intervening space. The powerful night-glasses revealed no sign of the approaching enemy. Again a flash, followed by the sharp report of a rifle, the bullet knocking splinters from one of the cross-pieces of the stockade and then utter silence. "Dashed if I can stick this!" declared Wilmshurst. "I'll go out and sec what's doing.
'Yon's an inshot o' yours, Mac. I love ye like a brother. We'll bide whaur we are till daylight'; an' he kept her awa'. "Syne up went a rocket forward, an' twa on the bridge, an' a blue light aft. Syne a tar-barrel forward again. "'She's sinkin', said Bell. 'It's all gaun, an' I'll get no more than a pair o' night-glasses for pickin' up young Bannister the fool! " Fair an' soft again, I said.
"Can you make out the hut, Tom?" asked Ned, as he stood at his chum's side in the steering tower, and gazed downward on the silent village. "Not very clearly. Suppose you take a look through the night-glasses. Maybe you'll have better luck." Ned peered long and earnestly. "No, I can't see a thing." he said. "It all looks to be a confused jumble of huts. I can't tell one from the other.
But minute after minute passed by, the frigate drawing out from the land all the while, and the breeze freshening with every fathom of additional distance, until nothing could be discerned, even with the aid of our night-glasses, but the feeble glimmer of the lanterns showing through the port-holes; and presently these abruptly disappeared: the battery was shut in by a projecting point of land and we had escaped.
The night-glasses were being used, and as the vessel cruised to and fro off the mouth of the river, it did not seem possible for a fishing-boat to get away, leave alone a large schooner.
By the weight and the look, and also by the sound of them when shaken, they contained money. Next, a pair of rubber-soled Blucher boots. Next, a small square case, which he opened and found to contain a pocket-compass. Next, a pair of night-glasses. Next, a neck-comforter of knitted gray worsted And, lastly, a folded map.
"Yes, and as soon as it is dusk they will have two or three hours to get away before we can come round here. Beside, with their night-glasses from the top of the cliffs they will be sure to be able to make us out. There is only one other way that I can see of getting at them, that is to find a landing-place and attack them from on shore." "Ah! that's much more hopeful business.
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