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Updated: June 9, 2025
Surely, Mr Ark so material a document was not forgotten!" "Nothing was forgotten that the warmest interest in his safety could suggest, Captain Bignall. Still the chief of yonder lawless ship refuses to hearken to your conditions."
"Though its awful justice be hidden in inscrutable wisdom for a time, deceive not thyself; the hour is at hand when it shall be seen and felt in majesty!" The voice of the chaplain became suddenly choaked, for his wandering eye had fallen on the frowning countenance of Bignall, which, set in death, lay but half concealed beneath that flag which the Rover himself had cast upon the body.
"Captain Bignall," said Wilder, leading his Commander still further from the ears of their inferiors, "I may lay some little claim to merit for services done under your own eyes, and in obedience to your orders. If my former conduct may give me a title to presume to counsel one of your great experience, suffer me to urge a short delay." "Delay!
A hasty consultation on the cause and consequences of this unexpected event was the immediate and natural result. "See!" cried Wilder, "the sails are already banging against the masts like rags; the explosions of the artillery have stilled the wind." "Hark!" answered the more experienced Bignall: "There goes the artillery of heaven among our own guns.
"I never knew the smoke pack so heavy on the clerk of a ship before," said Bignall, with a concern that even his caution could not entirely repress. "Keep the helm a-port jam it hard, sir! By Heaven Mr Wilder, those knaves well know they are struggling for their lives!"
The sea changed its colour from a dark green to a glittering white; and then the fury of the gust was heard rushing along the water with fearful rapidity, and with a violence that could not he resisted. "Be lively, men!" shouted Bignall himself, in the exigency in which his vessel was placed; "Roll up the cloth; in with it all leave not a rag to the squall!
"Captain Bignall," he said, again wearing that grace of manner which became him so well, "it is my duty to follow your motions in this interview.
"Captain Howard," resumed the warm-hearted Bignall, "have you a gentleman of the cloth in your vessel?" "Two, sir," was the ready answer. "Two! It is rare to find a supernumerary priest in a man of war! But, I suppose, Court influence could give the fellow a bishop," muttered the other.
"The fellow has the modesty to carry a naked gaff in our presence," said Bignall, pointing out the circumstance to his companion, as an augury favourable to their success. "We will stand for him until within a reasonable distance, and then you shall take to the boat."
When Wilder found himself restored to his proper vessel, of which the death of Bignall had left him in command, he immediately issued the order to fill her sails, and to steer for the nearest haven of his country. So long as sight could read the movements of the man who remained on the decks of the "Dolphin" not a look was averted from the still motionless object.
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