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Updated: June 4, 2025
On which the skipper winked self-willed to himself, and, putting out nine miles from the Boodah his three lights, went dashing past. And the attempt would have succeeded, had it not been for the fact that the night was pitch-dark, and that another ship was trying that very venture with extinguished lights.
Charles P. Stickney, a New York Jewess, and as the marriage of Miss Stickney with Lord Alfred Cowern was only fifteen days off, Frankl had made arrangements to accompany the bridegroom across, but had been detained by stress of business; happily for him for Lord Alfred, the bridegroom, was a dancing prisoner in the Boodah.
Already the set-up wedges had raised the Boodah from her keel- block, and left her resting on the great braced ground-ways; and now down to the sea's brink the greasers were busy, prodigals in tallow, while, within, the seven hundred trooped from spectacle to spectacle, like a tourist group guided through the Louvre.
The Boodah finally came to rest some miles North of lat. 50 deg. and East of long. 20 deg.: and there just on the northern rim of the Gulf Stream where it divides, part toward Ireland, and part toward Africa she remained, precisely in the middle of the trade- route between Europe and Boston, New York, Halifax: a route covered for fifty miles twenty-five north, twenty-five south by her 19.5-inch guns.
Then appeared a rumour: alterations were going forward at Buckingham Palace on a scale of splendour new to Western mansions; the Prince of Wales had passed three days, from the 17th to the 19th, in the Boodah: and the saying went that, on the night of the rejection of the Land Bill, a compact had taken place between the Prince and the Sea for a three years' Regency of the latter.
But at eleven the truth came: for the brig which had lain becalmed near the Boodah at the moment of the tragedy, and now was nearer England, had flashed the news: "many of the Kaiser's passengers mutilated, many drowned". Death, then, was in the pottage of Life; the air tainted with specks of blood....
So the Deputation departs; five days later twelve British battleships surround the Boodah, come to accompany the Lord of the Sea to England; and at eleven on the morning of the 9th, his yacht, borne in on the strong thunders of a royal salute, drops anchor in Southampton Water.
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