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It was an extending thread of white which could only be smoke. It began well outside the city and leaped up and curved, evidently aiming at the descending Med Ship. Calhoun said curtly: "There's a rocket coming up. Aiming at me." The voice from the ground said: "It's spotted. I'm giving you free motion if you want to use it." The feel of the ship changed. It no longer descended.
He yelled, "Frenchy! Watch out!" Then he put both hands before him to protect his helmet. His hands caught the French Planeteer between the shoulders. Visitors! Trudeau held tight to the launcher, but the rocket racks opened and spilled attack rockets into space. They flew in a dozen different directions. Trudeau gave vent to his feelings in colorful French.
The priest cast a distress rocket in a look at the Vicar-General; but the Vicar-General perfidiously smiled and looked away. Up spoke Norah, her sweet voice not quite steady, her cheeks crimson but they all heard her: "It's a large gold watch. Why can't we give it to Father Kelly?" The Vicar-General's lifted hand stilled the shout that rose. "Why not?" called he.
At 7 a gong sounded for rising, at 8 a horn blew for breakfast, at 8.30 a whistle sounded for prayers, at 1 a flag was run up at half-mast for lunch, at 4 a gun was fired for afternoon tea, at 9 a first bell sounded for dressing, at 9.15 a second bell for going on dressing, while at 9.30 a rocket was sent up to indicate that dinner was ready.
At times she had to come out when a rocket went off, to see if it was one of the little boys. She was exhausted by the adventures of the day, and almost thought it could not have been worse if the boys had been allowed gunpowder.
Ah! as the red of a rocket streaked the haze, 'she's standing in to signal before she clears the Channel. 'Is it a wreck? said Maisie, to whom these words were as Greek. Dick's eyes were turned to the sea. 'Wreck! What nonsense! She's only reporting herself. Red rocket forward there's a green light aft now, and two red rockets from the bridge. 'What does that mean?
"Are you strong enough to carry him to his own side of the house?" I asked. "I won't touch him, if he's dead!" "He is not dead. Take him away!" All this time my mind was pre-occupied by the extraordinary appearance of the rocket, rising from the neighborhood of a lonely little village between midnight and one in the morning.
That makes a pay load of a ton an' a half, and you'd have to burn a hundred an' eighty tons of fuel old-style to take it to the moon, and another hundred an' twenty for every ton the rocket ship weighed. You might get a man to the moon with a twelve-hundred-ton rocket maybe. That's with the old fuels. He'd get there, an' he'd live two months, an' then he'd die for lack of air.
"The Commander-in-Chief takes this opportunity of again returning his public thanks to the Admirals, Captains, Officers, Seamen, Marines, Royal Sappers and Miners, Royal Marine Artillery, and the Royal Rocket Corps, for the noble support he has received from them throughout the whole of this arduous service; and he is pleased to direct that on Sunday next a public thanksgiving shall be offered up to Almighty God, for the signal interposition of his Divine Providence during the conflict which took place on the 27th, between his Majesty's fleet and the ferocious enemies of mankind.
But a vision of himself, stripped of "sweater" and moccasins, in cavalry rig, becrossed and beribboned, serving under another flag than the Stars and Stripes, was too much for Herb's gravity and for the grim regrets which wrung him to-night. "Oh, sugar!" he gasped; and his laughter was like a rocket shooting up from his mighty throat, and exploding in a hundred sparkles of merriment.
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