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Updated: June 27, 2025
"I'm having no choice," he said, shrugging his shoulders. "Very good," Colonel John answered curtly. And, going to the door, he called Bale from his station by the hatchway, and despatched him to the Bishop and to Admiral Cammock, requesting them to do him the honour to descend. They came readily enough, in the hope of some favourable turn. But the Colonel's words quickly set them right.
The wind was off shore, so that she could lay to, and, at the same time, no noise which might be made in lowering the boats would be heard on shore. The boats were quickly lowered and manned, and with muffled oars their brave leader, Lieutenant Cammock, pulled with steady strokes towards the harbour. The outermost vessels were to be first attacked.
Then his face relaxed, his eyes grew mild, his chin sank on his breast. His fingers drummed on the table. "His will be done!" he said "His will be done! I was not worthy." His surrender seemed to sting Cammock. Perhaps in the course of their joint adventures he had come to know and to respect his companion, and felt more for him than for himself.
"You have your home, your rank, your relations abroad," Colonel Sullivan answered firmly. "And if a descent on the coast be a part of your scheme, then you do not share the peril equally with us. You are here to-day and elsewhere to-morrow. We shall suffer, while you sail away." "I fling that in your teeth!" Cammock cried. "I know you too, sir, and " "Know no worse of me than of yourself!"
They were met by a party of the French, led by one of their officers. On every side pistols were flashing and steel was clashing furiously. "Clear the decks of them, my lads!" cried Mr Cammock, as with his hanger he rushed towards those who opposed him. The Frenchmen gave way, so furious and sudden was the attack. Some leaped overboard, others jumped down below, and others cried for quarter.
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