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Presently they struck again. Crash! Every timber groaned as the boat turned broadside to the sea, which made a clear breach over her. The coxswain and Bax alone stood up, both holding on to the mizzen-mast. The rest clung on as they best could to the thwarts, sometimes buried in water, often with only their heads above it.
"Am I to expect an answer?" said Denham. "I make no insinuations," said Bax, after a short pause; "I do but state facts. If the `Nancy' had been fitted with a new tops'l-yard and jib-boom, as I advised last summer, I would have carried her safe into the Downs." "So," said Denham, in a tone of increasing sarcasm, "you have the hardihood to insinuate that it was my fault?"
I never saw a more soothing-looking lot of kids. She went to her room, and we did not see her again till tea-time. Then, still exquisitely brushed and combed, we sat round the board in silence. We had left the tea-tray place for Mrs. Bax, of course. But she said to Dora "Wouldn't you like to pour out?" And Dora replied in low, soft tones, "If you wish me to, Mrs. Bax. I usually do." And she did.
Red House made a speech after dinner, and said drink to the health of everybody, one after the other, in currant wine, which was done, beginning with Mrs. Bax and ending with H.O. Then he said "Somnus, avaunt! What shall we play at?" and nobody, as so often happens, had any idea ready. Then suddenly Mrs. Red House said
A cry of despair arose from those still on board the ill-fated "Trident" when this catastrophe happened. "D'you think the ship will hold together long?" said Bax, going aft to the captain, who clung to the mizzen-shrouds superintending the operations of the men. "Not long, I fear," he replied.
"Look out!" cried the man in the bow of the boat, as he swung a heavily-loaded stick round his head, and flung it over the mast. The light line attached to this was caught by Bax, and by means of it a stout rope was drawn from the boat to the mast of the "Nancy" and made fast. And now came the most dangerous and difficult part of the service.
It thus became a sort of endless rope, by which things could be passed to the wreck and back again. Even without any hawser at all, many lives might have been saved by this rope; but, being small, it was liable to get broken, therefore the end of the thick hawser was sent out and received by Bax, who bound it also securely to the mainmast close to the pulley, about fifteen feet above the deck.
"Nothing in particular," at the same moment that Alice said "All sorts of things." "Tell me about them," said Mrs. Bax invitingly. We replied by a deep silence. She sighed, and passed her cup for more tea. "Do you ever feel shy," she asked suddenly. "I do, dreadfully, with new people." We liked her for saying that, and Alice replied that she hoped she would not feel shy with us.
When tea was over we melted away, "like snow-wreaths in Thawjean," and went out on the beach and had a yelling match. Our throats felt as though they were full of wool, from the hushed tones we had used in talking to Mrs. Bax. Oswald won the match. Next day we kept carefully out of the way, except for meals. Mrs.
The whispered communication, above referred to, had the effect of causing Bluenose to spring up from the coil of rope, and exclaim "You don't say so!" Then, checking himself, and looking mysterious, he said he wanted to have a word with Bax in private, and would be obligated if he'd go with him a bit along shore. "Well, what's the news?" inquired Bax, when they were alone.
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