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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Ahoy! this way. Here he is!" The man made a rush down the ravine, and the young officer's heart felt as if released from some tremendous pressure, for he had nerved himself for a tremendous struggle, and the danger had passed. A minute later there was a sudden outburst of voices and a roar of laughter, after which Hilary fancied he could hear Allstone shouting and angrily abusing the men.
"And see, a rowboat is alongside!" "Maybe we are just in time," added Sam. "I hope so." Without delay, the motor-boat was headed in the direction of the Ellen Rodney. As they drew closer they saw but one man on the deck of the schooner, a burly fellow who looked like a sailor. "Schooner ahoy!" shouted Dick, as they ran alongside. "Ahoy, the motor-boat!" cried the burly man, coming towards them.
They were just turning into the smelly galley, when a startled voice sang out forward: "Sail ahoy!" This stopped the trio instantly. "Where away?" called Caradoc. "Dead ahead, sor!" All three turned and went running back updeck. When they regained the bridge, Madden stared in the direction indicated.
The matter was discussed for a moment, and then Tom tied his handkerchief to a stick and held it up. "Ahoy there!" came from Arnold Baxter. "Will you honor the flag of truce?" "Yes," yelled Sergeant Brown. "And let us have our distance after our talk is over, if we can't come to terms?" "Yes." "All right, then; we'll come close enough to talk to you."
He was alone in this particular room of the Ship Ahoy Hotel, but he could hear the voices of other imbibers barking and rolling from an adjoining apartment. He gulped down half of his rum and lit his pipe. The proprietor entered then, threw a lump of coal on the fire and lit a ship's lantern that hung from the middle rafter.
That the noise of the collision had been heard on board was evident, for a sentry hailed, 'Boat ahoy! and fired his musket, and one of those detestable bright lights which the American men-of-war have a nasty habit of showing flashed over the water, making everything visible for a hundred yards round.
It was time; for the oars were heard, and then I got a view of the boat as it came glancing down on our weather quarter. I instantly gave the order to fill the after sails, and to keep the ship full and by. The braces were manned, as well as they could be, by Marble, Neb and the cook, while I kept an eye on the boat, with an occasional glance at the man at the wheel. "Boat ahoy!"
We acknowledged the signal, and, on turning it up, found that it was a request to "Round-to under my lee: wish to communicate with you." This brought the signalling to a close; and in about a quarter of an hour afterwards, we rounded-to on the frigate's lee beam, while that craft laid her main-topsail to the mast. "`Vidette ahoy! Are you the guarda-costa of that name?"
At the same moment Benson rang the signal bell for reduced speed, so that the sterns of the two craft were kept almost on a line with each other. "Ahoy, yacht!" bellowed the commander, through the megaphone. "Any trouble aboard?" "Mutiny!" hoarsely shouted the white-haired man, turning his head only enough to send the word. "It looks like it," agreed Commander Ennerling.
"I'll go with you," he said to the sailor. "I can manage a boat!" "Good! That's the way to talk. Come on!" A few minutes later Russ and Jack had shoved out the fisherman's craft, and were quickly rowing toward the rocks. The tide was now so high that Paul and the two girls stood ankle-deep in the water that completely covered the rocks. "Ahoy there!
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