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Commander Hillyar and several other officers and men were severely wounded, as was Lieutenant Corbet, in endeavouring to cut the chain-cable of the Victoria, Mr Beecroft's boat, under a hot fire from the blacks.
"What would they think if they knew you as I know you what would they say if I told them only half?" Her mouth dropped in a contemptuous smile. "They wouldn't believe me they'd say I lied about their 'lady doc." She went on in sneering self-condemnation "I'm nothin' just nothin'; drug up among the worst; no learnin' no raisin' but her HER!" Nell Beecroft's lips curled in indescribable scorn.
"But I'm goin' to see it through I'll stick to the bitter end I'm no coward " "Ain't you?" Sudden excitement leaped into Nell Beecroft's voice and she stared hard down the street. "Unless I'm mistaken you're goin' to have as fine a chance to prove it as anybody I ever see. Come here."
While Commander Hillyar was arranging the boats so that they might keep up their fire as they retreated to the Teazer, some of the kroomen on board Mr Beecroft's Victoria let go her anchor, and there she lay exposed entirely to the fire of the blacks. On seeing this, Captain Lyster pulled back to her to learn what was the matter. "What has occurred now?" he asked of Mr Blight, the boatswain.
The Krooman on board Mr Beecroft's boat by mistake let go her anchor directly in front of the enemy's lines, and had not an officer, in the most gallant way, cut her chain cable with a chisel, under a fearfully hot fire, during which he was several times hit, she also would have been destroyed.
Recovering himself, he wagged his head and sighed in his pious whine: "Ah, truly, 'the wages of sin is death. Altogether a most unfortunate affair, but no human skill could save him." His voice faltered a little, at the end, for pretence seemed ridiculous beneath Nell Beecroft's hard eyes, and her unpleasant laugh nettled him as she strode back to the kitchen.
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