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I suppose the other fellow the one they found drowned might have got it here, some way," he added. "Not likely," said Roy. "If he'd managed to get back to the launch with the board, he wouldn't have jumped overboard again just to get drowned. He'd have managed to stay aboard."
"Well, Miles," the mate drily observed, "whatever we have to do, must be done at once. When shall we begin? in the middle, or in the morning watch?" "Begin what, Moses?" I asked, a little surprised at the settled manner in which he put his question. "To throw these Frenchmen overboard. Of course, you don't mean to let them carry your ship into Brest?" "Why not?
Possibly she might be hove-to; although it was difficult to imagine why she should be so, unless she had lost a man overboard. But if that were the case she would be showing lights as a guide to her boat, which ought not to be very far away. And why so deadly silent? I could not understand it.
Still, of course, I continued on till I got up to the spar, when I tried to help the poor man into my boat, for he was too much hurt to get on board by himself. But my strength was insufficient for the purpose, and I was afraid of letting go lest he should sink and be lost. There was no small risk also of my being dragged overboard.
A cry of terror and dismay arose from the Malays as they saw their chief fall. The sailors shouted; there was no further fighting: some of the pirates were killed, others leaped overboard and tried to swim away. The sailors, in their fury, shot at these wretches as they swam. The cruelty of Zangorri had stimulated such a thirst for vengeance that none thought of giving quarter.
The shrieks grew fainter, and at last ceased, and something was thrown overboard. Then the same tragedy, whatever it was, was acted over again more attempts to obtain mercy more shrieks again the same overpowering smell. What could it be? I would have given much to know, but something told me that I must remain where I was.
Only a word of explanation, and he, Li, would be free once more to swim about where he willed. And then there should be no more barbs for him. An escaped fish fears the hook. "I say, Chang," he began, gasping for breath, "really now, you must chuck me overboard at once, for, don't you see, I am Mr. Li, your old master. Come, hurry up about it.
Very soon the fire caught the logs of tarred wood, and when the pyre was all aglow and the heat became too great for him to bear, he fixed the steering board with the end of a rope, gave a farewell look at the prostrate body of his uncle, and then stepping to the rail threw himself overboard into the sea and swam back to the land.
Overboard with them!" cried the Pirate Prodigy, rising to the occasion, and casting aside all human affection in the peril of the moment. A plank was brought and the two women placed upon it. "After you, dear," said the mermaid significantly to the Amazonian queen; "you're the oldest." "Thank you!" said the Amazonian queen, stepping back. "Fish is always served first."
"And that is no wise way to see it. There are always gentlemen of the Free Trade hanging about in the offing these days, and if they thought that the heir of Raincy was spying on them well, they might take the liberty of throwing him overboard to sink or swim." "But surely your uncle has nothing to do with smuggling or smugglers?
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