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Having told them who we were, I returned to the trench, where I met Colonel of the 1st Royals. I warned him if he went out he would be sure to be hit by our own sentries or the Russians. He would go, however, and a moment afterwards was hit in the breast, the ball going through his coats, slightly grazing his ribs, and passing out again without hurting him.
We require to know on what footing Mr. Juan Catheron stood with his family. Did he ever come to Catheron Royals to visit his sister?" "He did not." "Had he ever been forbidden the house?" "I believe so." "On the evening of Sir Victor and Lady Catheron's arrival, his visit was entirely unexpected then?" "I don't know." "You admitted him?" "I did." "What did he say to you?" "I don't remember.
Mrs. Beresford had just come on deck to enjoy the balmy morning. "Sharpe," said Dodd, in a tone that conveyed no suspicion to the new-comer, "set the royals and flying jib. Port!" "Port it is," cried the man at the helm. "Steer due south!" And, with these words in his mouth, Dodd dived to the gun-deck.
For I knew that, if the Bangalore was a clipper, so too was the Francesca; and if her people once caught sight of so much as the heads of our royals from their own royal-yard, they would chase us as long as there was the slightest hope of overhauling us.
Toward sundown the wind came off in flaws, sometimes blowing very stiff, so that the pilot took in the royals, and then it died away; when, in order to get us in before the tide became too strong, the royals were set again. As this kept us running up and down the rigging, one hand was sent aloft at each mast-head, to stand by to loose and furl the sails at the moment of the order.
For a second even Inez Catheron quailed before the storm she had raised; then black eyes met blue, with defiant scorn. "Not all the soap-boiler's daughters in London or England shall send me from Catheron Royals! Not all the Miss Dobbs that ever bore that distinguished appellation shall drive me forth. You may go to-morrow if you will. I shall not."
"Take in the to'gallants and royals!" Up we all raced aloft; but no sooner had these sails been furled and we reached the deck than the commodore was at us again. "Watch, reef tops'ls!" he shouted even louder than before. "Away aloft take in one reef!"
She ran her eyes aloft, spar by spar, past the spars of hollow steel to the wooden royals, which bent in the gusts like bows in some invisible archer's hands. "They're remarkably good sticks of timber," was her comment. "Well may you say it, Miss West," he agreed. "I'd never a-believed they'd a-stood it myself. But just look at 'm! Just look at 'm!" There was no breakfast for the men.
We had an advantage over her in light winds, from our royals and skysails which we carried both at the fore and main, and also in our studding-sails; for Captain Wilson carried nothing above top-gallant-sails, and always unbent his studding-sails when on the coast.
Half an hour passed, and then there appeared far away on the horizon, on the brig's lee quarter, a tiny white speck, which steadily though imperceptibly increased in size until the snowy royals of a large ship stood fully revealed. This was about half-past three in the afternoon, at which time the wind showed signs of failing.
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