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A powdered footman came to show her to the improvised artists' room. Fritz prepared to follow. "Aren't you going into the concert-room?" she said. "Presently." "But " "I'll take you up first." "Very well," she said. "But it isn't the least necessary." He only stuck out his under jaw. She realised that Miss Schley would be in the artists' room and said nothing more.
Miss Schley was only going to act for a month in London. Her managers had taken a theatre for her from the first of June till the first of July. As she was to appear in a play she had already acted in all over the States, and as her American company was coming over to support her, she had nothing to do in the way of preparation.
To a newspaper correspondent Commodore Schley said, as he stood on his flag-ship pointing towards Morro Castle: “History does not record an act of finer heroism than that of the gallant men who are prisoners over there. I watched the Merrimac as she made her way to the entrance of the harbour, and my heart sank as I saw the perfect hell of fire that fell upon those devoted men.
It is, as Admiral Schley said of the famous naval victory on the Southern Cuban coast, "There is glory enough to go around."
Behind them, in the distance, was visible the yellow and sunken face of Sir Donald Ulford. When Miss Schley gained the top of the staircase Lady Holme saw that their gowns were almost exactly alike. Hers was sewn with diamonds, but otherwise there was scarcely any difference.
The Movement Against Cuba The Destruction of Cervera's Fleet Admiral Sampson Admiral Schley "Fighting Bob" Evans Commodore John C. Watson Commodore John W. Philip Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright.
At that time the castaways were too feeble to give even hasty sepulture to their dead. A horrible circumstance, reported by Commander Schley himself, was that the flesh of many of the bodies was cut from the bones by whom, and for what end of cannibalism, can only be conjectured.
As Leo came in he looked round swiftly, furtively. He saw Fritz, and a flush went over his face. Then Lady Holme saw him look at her with a scowl, exactly like the scowl of an evil-tempered schoolboy. She bowed to him slightly. He ignored the recognition, and spoke to Miss Schley with a heavy assumption of ignominious devotion and intimacy. Lady Holme could scarcely help smiling.
Thomas, Port-au-Prince, and on the flagships of Admiral Sampson and Commodore Schley. Every invention and device of applied science was brought into requisition to facilitate the work of the reporters and to enable them to get their work quickly to their home offices.
The "flying squadron" of fast cruisers under Commodore Schley was kept for weeks at moorings in Hampton Roads ready to be dispatched for protection of our northern coasts, while the squadron of battle-ships under Admiral Sampson was made to steam hither and yon in the Caribbean Sea looking for an enemy's fleet which much of the time lay snugly on the other side of the Atlantic.
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