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Instantly the quartermaster staggered and hung limply to the wheel. "Bad luck to me, I'll have to hit ye agin," Mr. Reardon complained and did it. Then he slid through the trap into the pilot-house, steadied the wheel with one hand and unlocked the pilot-house door with the other to admit the steward.
To the wheel of the Whist was Baldwin, and as with every dive of the plunging Whist the spray scattered high above her bows, so through the open windows of the pilot-house came barrels of it, and not a spoonful that didn't go to his drenching. "But it's a good thing to get good and wet at first," reflected Baldwin, "then you won't be worryin' any more about it." It was not only wet, but cold.
I saw a long spyglass lying on a desk in one of the upper-deck state-rooms back of the pilot-house and reached after it there was a ship in the distance. "Ah, ah hands off! Come out of that!" I came out of that. I said to a deck-sweep but in a low voice: "Who is that overgrown pirate with the whiskers and the discordant voice?" "It's Captain Bursley executive officer sailing master."
Brennan leaped from his chair; his ruddy face was mottled, his eyes were wide and horror-stricken. "Damnation!" he gasped. The cabin door crashed open ahead of him and he was on the bridge, with O'Neil at his heels. They saw the first officer clinging limply to the rail; from the pilot-house window came an excited burst of Norwegian, then out of the door rushed a quartermaster.
From his pilot-house Worden could see the crew of the "Nashville" escaping in boats, leaping into the water over the sides, doing anything to escape from that terribly destructive fire. All the time the great fifteen-inch shells were dropping into the vessel with fearful precision.
When the morning watch came on duty at four o'clock, Captain Ringgold was pacing the promenade deck, peering through the darkness, and observing the huge waves that occasionally washed the upper deck. He had not slept a wink during the night, though he had reclined an hour on the divan in the pilot-house.
"But I do!" interposed the acting captain sharply, as he reached over and pulled the bell. "I don't like to have a fellow fool with me when I am in earnest. What good will it do to ring the bell while you are in the pilot-house, Christy?"
I think it must be the naval officer whom Captain Carboneer called Haslett; but I have not seen him except as he was shinning up the painter of the boat. You can go on deck if you like, mother and Florry, or you may come with me into the pilot-house," added Christy.
It was on the afternoon of the third day following the turning turtle of the Annihilator that Mark, who was looking through a telescope in the pilot-house, called out: "I say, Jack, look here!" "What's the matter?" asked his chum. "Why, we're rushing right at the moon! I can see the mountains and craters on it as plain as though we were but five miles away!"
A minute later Ealer was biting into a pie, down in the 'texas, and comforting himself with coffee. Just then the night watchman happened in, and was about to happen out again, when he noticed Ealer and exclaimed 'Who is at the wheel, sir? 'Dart for the pilot-house, quicker than lightning! The next moment both men were flying up the pilot-house companion way, three steps at a jump!
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