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Coacoochee and his warriors were sent by Major Childs in a schooner to New Orleans en route to their reservation, but General Worth recalled them to Tampa Bay, and by sending out Coacoochee himself the women and children came in voluntarily, and then all were shipped to their destination.
A bargain was struck for the towing, and soon a hawser was cast over to the schooner and the race for Lake Huron began. Dick was not aware that his brothers had been captured until some hours after the sailing of the schooner.
The beautiful face was warm with color; the scarlet lips were slightly opened in a brilliant smile; intent upon her task, she swayed with superb grace to the tremendous lurches of the driving schooner, ignoring all outside affairs.
Towards evening the schooner doubled Cape Skagen, the northernmost part of Denmark, crossed the Skagerrak during the night skirted the extreme point of Norway through the gut of Cape Lindesnes, and then reached the Northern Seas.
In half an hour, however, he came back to the captain and offered to stay with him until the schooner should return. If Captain Horn had known the terrible mental struggle which had preceded this offer, he would have been more grateful to Maka than he had ever yet been to any human being, but he did not know it, and declined the proposition pleasantly but firmly.
Being aft, his weight caused the water to run down to him, and he could thus perform the two operations at the same time. When pitch-blackness had come he knew that he was out of reach of the schooner's horn. His only chance lay in the fog's lifting or the passing of some schooner. His principal concern was for the wind.
The course of the schooner, at no one period particularly rapid, had been considerably checked since her entrance into the gloomy arch, in the centre of which her present accident had occurred; so that it was without immediate injury to her hull and spars she had been thus suddenly brought to. But this was not the most alarming part of the affair.
"A whole schooner of detectives from Sydney," says I. "They say they're buying guano islands, but there's already five hundred pounds out for you, dead or alive." His great fat hand began to shake on the trap. "Never you mind, Mr. Smith," I says reassuring. "Tom will be due here at midnight, and then we'll run you up your tree."
He used to trade between this wharf and Bristol on a little schooner called the Firefly, and seeing wot a silly, foolish kind o' man he was, I took a little bit o' notice of 'im.
"What are you going to do with us?" asked one of the rebels, who began to exhibit some interest in the fate of the schooner. "I suppose you will find good quarters in Fort McHenry," replied Tom. "Where do you belong?" "In Baltimore." "What are you doing here, then?" "We go in for the South." "Go in, then!" added Tom, laughing. "You'll fetch up where all the rest of 'em do," said Hapgood.
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