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Updated: May 6, 2025
There were windsails stretched from the after-bridge to mattresses on the quarter-deck, down which one shot through the dizzy darkness to end in a delicious "wump" at the bottom. The after-capstan was a roundabout, with its squealing passengers suspended from capstan-bars.
Some crazy Parsee diver might spot it and go down and bring it up; and besides, you oughtn't let it get wet it'd spoil all that nice typewriting. Give it up to me and I'll take it up on the after-bridge, and if it's too stiff for wadding, I'll tie it across the muzzle of the first six-pounder we salute the port with, and let you see how it looks then.
"'Man overboard! he yells, and snaps the patent life-buoy over the side, and the marine on the starboard side of the quarter he yells, 'Man overboard! and the marine on the after-bridge he yells, 'Man overboard! and the two seaman on watch on the for'ard bridge, 'Man overboard, sir! they yell, and the watch officer orders, 'Hard on your wheel, Quartermaster! and to the bosun's mate on watch the watch officer yells, 'Pipe the deck division to quarters! and the watch officer pulls a few bells and talks through three or four tubes, and in no time the ship is coming around in a circle, and up on deck came piling about two hundred lusty young seamen, and it was, 'boats away, and over the side went hanging gigs and cutters and whale-boats, and then it was, 'Search-lights all clear! and in about one minute the big ship was back on the spot, and in another minute and a half there were eight boats with half-dressed crews rowing around, and six big search-lights playing tag on the waters.
A vision of her black-pansy eyes, so wide and luminous and wistful as they had looked sideways and upward to his, pleading for him to join her after-bridge cocktail party, nearly made him crash into a lumbering furniture van. Those eyes were luminous no longer, could never again snap the padlocks of slave chains upon any man as Penny had expressed it.... Dead!
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