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"She's the Giaour," observed Commander Allport, looking at the signal-book; "Murray will assist us in knocking her to pieces." "I very much doubt whether he will do anything of the sort," answered Adair, unable to restrain himself; "I only wish he had come an hour ago, to save her from destruction."
Now Commander Allport did not recollect that Murray was his senior. The latter had been promoted a few weeks before him, and would have power to decide the question. Instead of desisting, however, he directed his guns so as to concentrate their fire upon one portion of the Flash, thus more completely to ruin her.
'Curst fool! muttered Mr Allport. 'I beg your pardon, he added swiftly to Vera. 'Have you ever noticed, Mr Holiday, asked Vera, as if very friendly, 'how awfully tantalizing these flowers are? They won't open while you're looking. 'No, sniggered he, I don't blame 'em. Why should they give themselves away any more than you do?
"We must take care, should she fall into the hands of the Russians, that she is reduced to an utter wreck," observed Commander Allport. "You are certainly setting about the right way to make her so," observed Adair. He even now was strongly inclined to urge the old martinet to desist, as he saw shot after shot strike the hull of his vessel.
With reluctant heart he gave the order to heave the pivot-gun overboard, taking care to secure a buoy to it, hoping that he might yet get it up. The engine was set going, once more the capstan was manned, but still the Flash did not move. "If that Commander Allport would stand in like a true man and lend us a hand, we might get off even now," exclaimed Desmond.
Adair naturally hoped pretty much the same, but, on consideration, he could not help suspecting that the ship in sight was the Anaconda, commanded by Commander Allport, his superior officer, for whom, on account of previous circumstances which need not just now be mentioned, he had no special regard. "At all events, he is a brave fellow, and will stand by me," he said to himself.
One evening in July, eleven months after the burial of Siegmund, Beatrice went into the dining-room and found Mr Allport sitting with his elbow on the window-sill, looking out on the garden. It was half-past seven.
"You are forgetting our relative positions, Commander Adair," observed Commander Allport, beginning now to fume. "I only expressed my opinion that Murray would not have tried to knock the Flash to pieces, till he had assisted me in making further efforts to get her off," answered Adair; "and I only ask you to desist from firing till you have his opinion."
Allport learned that I came from Derby, and was the son of an old Midland official, he treated me with marked kindness. Mr.
'Ho! that's where you are! he cried in his nasal tenor, which annoyed Vera's trained ear. She wished she had not been wearing a white dress to betray herself. 'What have you got? he asked. 'Nothing in particular, replied Mr Allport. Mr Holiday sniggered. 'Oh, well, if it's nothing particular and private said Mr Holiday, and with that he leaped over the window-sill and went to join them.
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