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"Let me see the casualties, quick." That night a fog rolled up from the swamps, and in the morning jack-staff was hid from pilot-house.
With this determination, he walked up to the pilot-house, and inquired: "Do you know, sir, that I command this boat?" "Yes," replied the pilot, "I know all about that. But you had better go and turn in; you are only in the way here. All ready, Mr. Nelson," he continued, as the engineer's bell rang at this moment.
The floor was covered with blood, splinters, glass, and the fragments of a shattered stove. One side of the little room was broken in, and the other side was perforated where the projectiles made their exit. The first gun from the Rebels threw a shell which entered the side of the pilot-house, and struck the captain, who was sitting just behind the pilot. Death must have been instantaneous.
It was during his stay on this boat that Captain Sellers introduced the tap of the bell as a signal to heave the lead, previous to which time it was the custom for the pilot to speak to the men below when soundings were wanted. The proximity of the forecastle to the pilot-house, no doubt, rendered this an easy matter; but how different on one of our palaces of the present day.
The one now before them was only about four feet wide, winding cork-screw fashion round the tube which encased the communications between the pilot-house and the engine-room, etcetera, and it was in its turn encased in a cylindrical bulk-head, in which, on their way below, they passed several doors giving access, as the professor explained, to the different decks.
Captain Scott had directed Morris to heave up the anchor before he buried himself in his study of the chart in the pilot-house, and to do it in such a manner as not to attract the attention of the Fatimé's people. It was not a very heavy anchor that was required for a craft of the size of the Maud, and it had been done very easily and quietly.
It was shortly past midnight when Dick, who, in spite of his attempts to keep awake, had partly dozed off, was suddenly aroused by a howl from Grit. "What what's the matter, old boy?" he asked. "In trouble again?" There came another and louder howl. "Where is he?" asked Mr. Vardon, looking in from the pilot-house. "I can't see him," Dick answered. "Can he be out on deck?"
She called to the pilot to stop the boat and go back for her hat, but the captain, who was up in the pilot-house, stuck out his head and said he reckoned she'd have to wait until they came back. The hat would hang there for a day or two. Corny made no answer to this, but disappeared into the saloon. In a little while, she came out on the lower deck, wearing a seal-skin hat.
"At a few thousand feet, the engine-exhaust through those radiators won't be any too much. Forward!" He slid open another door. The three men passed through the captain's cabin and pilot-house.
I'm quite sure you won't enjoy your book while I'm here and I've decided to stay with you for the present." "All right, Molly, come along," and they hunted up the captain, whom they found sitting near the pilot-house. "Captain, I have taken an interest in that stowaway of yours. Is there any objection to having his name put on the cabin list, at my expense, of course?"
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